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Sociology of Spirit: A Complete Introduction

by Caleb Anthony Farmer
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798257917219
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 234
  • Original Price: GBP 18.49
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 318 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / Social Theory

Modern social theory has a missing variable.

It accounts for institutions, power, culture, habitus, and collective life with considerable sophistication. What it cannot account for - what its methodological commitments have trained it to exclude - is the social activity of the Holy Spirit: the most consequential force shaping human communities across the full arc of history and in every corner of the globe today.

Sociology of Spirit establishes a new interdisciplinary discipline at the intersection of sociological theory, Christian theology, and the study of lived communal life. Drawing on the classical tradition from Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel through Bourdieu, Charles Taylor, and Randall Collins - and on the theological tradition from Pauline anthropology through contemporary pneumatology - this book makes the case that human social life cannot be fully understood without a rigorous account of the Spirit's social operation.

The argument moves from foundations to application: the architecture of the human person, the objectivity of the Spirit and the subjectivity of the vessel, the social mechanics of Spirit-integration and distortion, the formation of Spirit-bearing communities, the sociology of institutions and their chronic tendency toward the displacement of Spirit by structure, and the conditions under which genuine renewal becomes sociologically possible.

This is not sociology of religion. It is not practical theology. It is not a spiritual self-help book repackaged in academic language. It is a disciplinary proposal - rigorous, contested, and necessary - for a social science willing to take the Spirit seriously as an object of genuine knowledge.

For scholars, students, and serious readers working at the intersection of social theory, theology, and the question of what makes human communities flourish or fail.

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