Identity and the Sacred: A Sketch for a New Social-scientific Theory of Religion

alienation analysis anomie basic become beliefs Bellah boundaries Buddhism Calvinist cargo cults Catholic charisma Christianity church civil religion cohesion commitment concept concrete conflict culture denominations dialectic differentiation Durkheim dysfunctional economic emergence ethics existence faith foci of identity forces fragile frame of reference frames of identity Freud function Glock group identity Hinduism human ibid identity foci independent individual integration interpretation legitimated less man's Maoism marginality Marxism Max Weber mechanisms modern societies moral motivation movements mundane myth objectification one's patterns personal identity primitive problems Protestantism rational reality reason reinforce relativization relevance religious organizations rites ritual sacralization sacralization process sacred salvation scientific sectarian sects secular self-realization sense sexual situational ethics social identity social whole sociological sociology of religion specific stability strengthened stress structure sub-system superego symbols system of meaning theological theory tion traditional transcendental universal religions values Weber Western York