Religion, Realism and Social Theory: Making Sense of Society

by Philip A. Mellor

Philip Mellor′s ambition is to save sociology from itself...or to save society from the sociologists. He has written a brilliant polemic and theoretically rich argument against the many fashionable contemporary social theories that provide acquiescent ′post-societal′ endorsements of the economic and technological forces that are ′hollowing out′ the religious, moral and human dimensions of societies. I am tremendously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761948651
• ISBN13: 9780761948650
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"