Theorists studying religious belief, practice, organization and authority as social phenomena, including how religious institutions persist, decline or reassert themselves in modern, pluralistic societies. This group gathers theorists of secularization and its limits, civil religion, rational choice approaches to religious markets, and the comparative study of religion's public role, distinguishing this subfield from the classical founders who first raised these questions but whose primary identity in this atlas lies elsewhere.
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Established Era Primary Discipline All Sociology Of Religion
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1. Wikipedia: Sociology of religion
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Modern sociology as an academic discipline began with the analysis of religion in Emile Durkheim's 1897 study of suicide rates among Catholic and Protestant populations, a foundational work of social research which served to distinguish sociology from other disciplines, such as psychology.
2. Wikipedia: Sociology
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Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on human social behaviour, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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