New Marxist Approaches to the Relative Autonomy of Religion
Traditionally, marxist theory has been understood as a reductionism in which religion is conceived as a totally dependent variable, externally and mechanically determined by the economic system of each society. In the past six years, some West European scholars have tried to overcome this reductioni...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1977
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1977, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 359-367 |
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| Summary: | Traditionally, marxist theory has been understood as a reductionism in which religion is conceived as a totally dependent variable, externally and mechanically determined by the economic system of each society. In the past six years, some West European scholars have tried to overcome this reductionism while preserving all of the marxian contributions to the sociology of religions. In this article, there is a summary of ideas developed by three French investigators. For all of these, the main path to overcome reductionism without abandoning the marxian standpoint is through the concept of the relative autonomy of religion: an approach in which religious systems have to be studied in themselves and to be situated within a specific macro-social context in a historical perspective, thus trying to establish the complex mutual influences between social structure and religious systems. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710119 |