Introduction

Religion Within Framework of Philosophical and Sociological Approaches

“…In the early 1990s, the authoritative British sociologist of religion Prof. James Beckford presented a general overview on the development of sociology of religion in its various dimensions and manifestations over a formidably long periodthe nearly half a century between 1945 and 1989. His analysis has been confirmed in many respects by a discussion embracing a slightly longer period, and dealing with the formation and development of the conceptual perspective of Social Compass, the journal of one of the highly reputed associations in its field, the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), whose trends the journal has reflected for many years (Mejido 2004;Houtart 2004;Bastenier 2004).…”