Religion und Politik – Max Weber und Émile Durkheim

Tyrell, Hartmann

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-92777-0_3

Cited by 6 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 20 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Parsons did not question Weber’s analysis of the differentiation of secular value spheres within modern society – quite to the contrary. But he did not have much affinity with the fin-de-siècle pessimism that permeated Weber’s analyses of Western society and its religious culture (Tyrell, 2011). Parsons argued that the increasing differentiation of specialized subsystems did not have to signify the loss of religious concerns in favor of worldly interests.…”

Section: Differentiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Talcott Parsons and the enigma of secularization

Vanderstraeten

2012

European Journal of Social Theory

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

During the last ten or fifteen years of his life, Talcott Parsons (1902–79) discussed religion and secularization in a number of papers and essays. This work was left unfinished; in the last book that he saw into print, Parsons depicted these papers and essays as work-in-progress. This article focuses on Parsons’ approach to secularization in this late work. Building upon his AGIL-scheme, Parsons analyzed the relation between processes of inclusion and increasing differentiation, on the one hand, and secularization at the value-oriented level, on the other. This article presents a reconstruction and an immanent critique of Parsons’ approach, which highlights both its possibilities and its limitations in order to contribute to the development of a contemporary social theory of secularization and religious change.

show abstract

Section: Differentiationmentioning

confidence: 99%