Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion: 50 Years afterThe Sacred Canopy

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List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion
2. Vulnerability and Plausibility Structures: Peter L. Berger, Arnold Gehlen and Philosophical Anthropology
3. From Canopies to Conversations: The Continuing Significance of ‘Plausibility Structures’
4. The Sacred Canopy as a Global Construction Project: Incorporating both Emotional and Cognitive Resources
5. The Sacred Canopy as a Classic: Why Berger’s Conceptual Apparatus Remains Foundational 50 Years Later
6. Sacred Canopies and Invisible Religions: The Dialectical Construction of Religion in Berger and Luckmann
7. Secularization: From Sacred Canopies to Golf Umbrellas
8. Islamic Revivalism and Europe’s Secular ‘Sacred Canopy’: Exploring the Debunking Capacity of Public Religion
9. Religious American and Secular European Courts, or vice versa? A Study of Institutional Cross-Pollination
10. Assessing the Influence of The Sacred Canopy : A Missed Opportunity for Social Constructionism?
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