Sociology and the Sacred : An Introduction to Philip Rieff's Theory of Culture.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Bird's-Eye View on Rieff's Life and Work -- 2 Rieff's Reading of Freudian Metapsychology -- 3 The Emergence of Psychological Man in Western Culture -- 4 Blueprint for a Theory of Culture -- 5 The Limits of Modernity -- 6 Late Modernity as Second Culture Camp -- 7 Rieff: Prophet of a Post-secular Culture -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Including material from personal interviews with Rieff that enabled Zondervan to clarify important aspects of his work, Sociology and the Sacredis an essential contribution to the understanding of contemporary culture's maintenance of its ties to religion.