Books written by Peter L. Berger
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A construção social da realidade: tratado de sociologia do conhecimento
Este livro aborda o tema da sociologia do conhecimento, campo redefinido na obra como o 'conhecimento em geral' (senso comum). A sociedade pode apresentar-se ao indivíduo como uma realidade objetiva...
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The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics
Milton Himmelfarb , The Jews of Modernity ( New York : Basic Books , 1973 ) , 359 . 2. Quoted in Paul Mendes - Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz , eds . , The Jew in the Modern World ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 ) , 104 . 3.
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Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience
In this connection it is interesting to look at the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer, who may well have been the last Yiddish writer of any importance.12 In fairness one should point out that Singer himself would not have agreed with this ...
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review).
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A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural
Written by one of the most revered sociologists of the of the 20th century, A Rumor of Angels gives readers a unique insight into the complicated relationship between religion and society.
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Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective
The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his ...
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Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
This book offers longtime Berger readers as well as newcomers to sociology proof that the sociologist’s attempt to explain the world is anything but boring.
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The New Sociology of Knowledge: The Life and Work of Peter L. Berger
The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation, Garden City, NY: Anchor Press. [German: Religion: Der Zwang zur Ha'resie. Religion in der pluralistischen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt: Fischer 1980].
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A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity
Berger, an eminent religious sociologist and Protestant believer, attempts to square his own rational side with his religious impulses, bringing a lifetime of professional and personal reflection to bear on the nature of faith, its modern ...
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To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy
To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy
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Facing Up To Modernity
Concerns the growing problems the modernity brings including marriage, psychoanalysis, the secularization of religion, corruption of pornography, and more.
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Altäre der Moderne: Religion in pluralistischen Gesellschaften
Religionen und religiöse Gemeinschaften weisen gegenwärtig Tendenzen sowohl zu mehr Liberalismus als auch zu mehr Fundamentalismus auf.
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The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory.
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The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age
This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger, an internationally renowned sociologist of religion.
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A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural
Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger examines religion in twentieth-century Western society, exploring the social nature of knowledge and its effect on religious belief.
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The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
After ten years of writing in other areas, Peter L. Berger returns to the problem of religion and modernity discussed in his earlier book A rumor of angels. In The...
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The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground
The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground
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La construcción social de la realidad
El doble carácter de la sociedad como «facticidad objetiva» y como «complejo de significados subjetivos», que orientó respectivamente las teorías sociológicas de Durkheim y de Weber, dio paso -sobre todo a partir de Alfred Schutz, ...
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Modernity, Pluralism and the Crisis of Meaning: The Orientation of Modern Man
Modernity, Pluralism and the Crisis of Meaning: The Orientation of Modern Man
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Challenge and Response: Critiques of the Catholic Bishops' Draft Letter on the U.S. Economy
"February 1985"--Cover.