Constructing a "Christian Sociological Re-Imagination": Creation, Fall, and Redemption as a Unifying Analytical Framework

While most introductory textbooks in sociology make use of functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist theoretical perspectives in the analyses of societal dynamics, they demonstrably make no attempt to integrate these paradigms either in theory or in practice. Yet even a casual look at the...

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Main Author: Chiareli, Antonio A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Graduate School [2019]
In: Journal of sociology and Christianity
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-47
Further subjects:B faith-discipline integration
B frame alignment
B Worldview
B Social Problems
B creation-fall-redemption
B sociological theories
B Christian Sociological Re-Imagination
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