The Sociological Myth: A 1954 Controversy on Secularization Narratives.
The term 'sociology' in 1950s theological discourse had connotations far beyond the field known as pastoral sociology. When in 1954 the Dutch theologian Henk Berkhof criticized "the sociological myth" that he saw permeating the churches in his country, at stake was not the legitimacy of pastoral soc...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religion in Europe Vol. 9; no. 2/3; pp. 201 - 225 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2016
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