Why Is Peter L. Berger Influential?
According to Wikipedia , Peter Ludwig Berger was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theoretical contributions to sociological theory.
Peter L. Berger's Published Works
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Marriage and the Construction of Reality The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge@@@The Invisible Religion: The Problem of Religion in Modern Society The Sacred Canopy (589) To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy The social reality of religion The Homeless Mind (391) A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World (288) Religious America, Secular Europe?: A Theme and Variations Reification and the Sociological Critique of Consciousness Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience The Capitalist Revolution Some Second Thoughts on Substantive versus Functional Definitions of Religion The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview The Heretical Imperative. Pyramids Of Sacrifice: Political Ethics And Social Change To Empower People: From State to Civil Society (163) Sociology: A Biographical Approach Reflections on the Sociology of Religion Today A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity Das Unbehagen in der Modernität (117) The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground- The capitalist revolution : fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age (105) Pyramids Of Sacrifice In Search of an East Asian Development Model Sociology Reinterpreted: An Essay on Method and Vocation The Limits Of Social Cohesion: Conflict And Mediation In Pluralist Societies Zur Dialektik von Religion und Gesellschaft : Elemente einer soziologischen Theorie (81) Social mobility and personal identity Charisma and Religious Innovation: The Social Location of Israelite Prophecy Modernity, pluralism and the crisis of meaning : the orientation of modern man (75) The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. " Sincerity " and " Authenticity " in Modern Society (68) Battle Cries on the Family Front@@@The War Over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground.@@@The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment.@@@Feminism and the New Right: Conflict Over the American Family. Der Zwang zur Häresie : Religion in der pluralistischen Gesellschaft (59) Faith and Development The Child the Family and the [French left quote] Religious Revival [French right quote] in Suburbia Sociology: A Biographical Approach. In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic (51) Sociology: A disinvitation? Facing up to modernity : excursions in society, politics, and religion MAX WEBER IS ALIVE AND WELL, AND LIVING IN GUATEMALA: THE PROTESTANT ETHIC TODAY Modernität, Pluralismus und Sinnkrise : die Orientierung des modernen Menschen (46) Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore (44) A Sociological View of the Secularization of Theology SPIRITUAL CAPITAL IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (42) Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies Further Thoughts on Religion and Modernity The Uncertain Triumph of Democratic Capitalism On the obsolecence of the concept of honor The Problem of Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz and Robert Musil Invitation to Sociology. A Humanistic Perspective. Harmondsworth (Penguin) 1963. (32) Sehnsucht nach Sinn : Glauben in einer Zeit der Leichtgläubigkeit (31) The Precarious Vision a Sociologist Looks at Social Fictions and Christian Faith Millennial dreams in action : essays in comparative study The Homeless Mind. Modernization and Consciouness. Harmondsworth (Penguin) 1973. (28) Movement and revolution Developing Cultures: Case Studies (26) In Praise of Particularity: The Concept of Mediating Structures Secularization and de-secularization The hidden form of capital : spiritual influences in societal progress Erlösendes Lachen : das Komische in der menschlichen Erfahrung Die Grenzen der Gemeinschaft : Konflikt und Vermittlung in pluralistischen Gesellschaften : ein Bericht der Bertelsmann Stiftung an den Club of Rome (23) In Search of an East Asian Development Model Questions of faith : a skeptical affirmation of Christianity Auf den Spuren der Engel : die modern Gessellschaft und die Wiederentdeckung der Transzendenz (19) In Search of an East Asian Development Model. Facing up to Modernity: Excursions in Society, Politics and Religion The Noise Of Solemn Assemblies Christian Commitment And The Religious Establishment In America (17) Wir und die Gesellschaft : eine Einführung in die Soziologie -- entwickelt an der Alltagserfahrung (17) Einladung zur Soziologie : eine humanistische Perspektive (17) The Secularization Debate (16) In Verteidigung der bürgerlichen Familie (16) Business and democracy, cohabitation or contradiction? (16) The human shape of work: studies in the sociology of occupations Orthodoxy and Global Pluralism The False Consciousness of “Consciousness Raising” A Future South Africa: Visions, Strategies, and Realities Für eine neue Soziologie : ein Essay über Methode und Profession (15) Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century (14) In Search of an East Asian Development Model. Ethics and the Present Class Struggle The Other side of God: A polarity in world religions (13) Pluralism, Protestantization, and the Voluntary Principle Sectarianism and Religious Sociation Der Neid : eine Theorie der Gesellschaft Ein Marktmodell zur Analyse ökumenischer Prozesse Against the World for the World: The Hartford Appeal and the Future of American Religion (11) The Capitalist Spirit: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation Review Symposium: Peter L. Berger's "The Heretical Imperative" The Other Side of God Robert Musil und die Errettung des Ich Reflections on Patriotism The Gross National Product and the Gods Aspiring to freedom : commentaries on John Paul II's encyclical The Social concerns of the Church (8) “…The Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints” A Future South Africa: Visions, Strategies and Realities Questions Of Faith Becoming a Member of Society—Socialization Secular Theology and the Rejection of the Supernatural: Reflections on Recent Trends The Pluralistic Situation and the Coming Dialogue between the World Religions The Anthropology of Values: Essays in Honour of Georg Pfeffer (7) Assessing the relevance and effects of ‘key emotional episodes’ for the fieldwork process (7) Theory and ethnography in the modern anthropology of India The Hospital: On the Interface Between Secularity and Religion Marxism and sociology;: Views from Eastern Europe Sociology and Theology The structure of freedom : correlations, causes, and cautions (6) The Hidden Form of Capital: Introduction: Spiritual, Social, Human, and Financial Capital Religions and Globalisation Church Commitment in an American Suburb [An analysis of the decision to join ] Two Cheers for the Affluent Society: A Spirited Defense of Economic Growth by Wilfred Beckerman (St. Martin's Press; 238 pp.; $7.95) Ultimate Ambiguities : Investigating Death and Liminality (6) Modernisation and religion (6) “…The Resurrection of the Body, and the Life Everlasting” Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas@@@Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas Response by Detlef Pollack: Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociology of Religion? Redeeming Laughter, the Comic Dimension of Human Experience Reflections on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of The Social Construction of Reality The Sociology of Knowledge and the Nature of Social Knowledge@@@Max Scheler 1874-1928: An Intellectual Portrait@@@The Phenomenology of the Social World@@@The Social Construction of Reality@@@Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics The Human Shape of Work: Studies in the Sociology of Occupations Periphery and centre (4) Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Social Construction of Reality GLOBAL PLURALISM AND RELIGION (4) Religious Establishment and Theological Education The modern anthropology of India : ethnography, themes and theory Toward a critique of modernity (4) Social Interaction in Everyday Life Capitalism and equality in the Third World (3) Speaking to the Third World:Essays on Democracy and Development (3) Response by Fenggang Yang: Agency-Driven Secularization and Chinese Experiments in Multiple Modernities Introduction: The many Indias: The whole and its parts (3) Feeding the Dead: Rituals of Transformation among the Gadaba of Koraput (3) The Gadaba and the "non-ST" Desia of Koraput, Orissa (3) Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India Creator of Heaven and Earth The culture of liberty: An agenda Conceptualizing and creating society in Highland Orissa : Descent, territory and sacrificial communion (2) Erlösender Glaube?: Fragen an das Christentum Dimensions of Indigeneity in Highland Odisha, India Movement and Revolution.@@@Blueprint of Revolution: The Rebel, The Party, The Techniques of Revolt. Health, lifestyle and environment : countering the panic (2) Nach dem Niedergang der Säkularisierungstheorie (2) The Bluing of America National Sovereignty and World Unity Religion as a Transnational Force Dialog zwischen religiösen Traditionen in einem Zeitalter der Relativität Füttern, Speisen und Verschlingen : Ritual und Gesellschaft im Hochland von Orissa, Indien (1) Languages of Murder Capitalism and equality in America (1) A Capitalist Manifesto@@@The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about Prosperity, Equality and Liberty. “He Suffered Under Pontius Pilate, was Crucified, Died and was Buried” Pirámides de sacrificio: ética política y cambio social (1) Gilgamesh on the Washington Shuttle Our Economic Culture Observations from America (1) Feldforschung / Fieldwork : Ethnologische Zugänge zu sozialen Wirklichkeiten / Social realities in anthropological perspectives (1) Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics@@@Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas The Modern Anthropology of India (1) Feeding Gods, Feeding Guests: Sacrifice and Hospitality among the Gadaba of Highland Orissa (India) Social change and the vocation of Sociologists The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics by Peter Steinfels (Simon & Schuster; 335 pp.; $11.95) Conclusion: General Observations on Normative Conflicts and Mediation Individuum & Co : Soziologie beginnt beim Nachdarn (1) Einführung: Soziologische Handlungstheorie, wozu? Haemorrhoids treated by cryotherapy. (1) Response by Nancy T. Ammerman: Modern Altars in Everyday Life Sacrificial food, the person and the Gadaba ritual system (1) Gesellschaft, Ritual und Ideologie. Eine relationale Betrachtung der Gadaba des Koraput Distriktes, Orissa (1) Protocol of a damnation: A novel (1) Secular branches, religious roots Good News From India Theological Table-Talk: A Funeral in Calcutta Religionssoziologie als Wissenssoziologie The Inventiveness of a tradition: Structural anthropology in the Netherlands from an outsider’s perspective (1) Introduction: The Anthropology of Values (1) Altäre der Moderne (1) Religion in a revolutionary society : delivered at Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, on February 4, 1974 (1) The Political Management of Pluralism Books in review Elements of Terrorism Remembering, Representing, and Forgetting: Christoph von Fürer Haimendorf and the Anthropology of India (0) Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India (0) Barth and Debunking Good to eat, good to think and good to study: Food (and Drink) in Indian tribal societies (0) Gadaba: Society on the Menu I Believe in the Holy Spirit I. Anatomy of the Comic Readings in Sociology (0) Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Alimentary Rituals and Cosmology in Highland Odisha, India (0) Rajasthan: Anthropological perspectives on tribal identity MAXINE WEISGRAU The Devil and the Pornography of Modern Consciousness The Third Jerusalem 370 Carolyn Gratton (0) Sociology of Knowledge Truth in the Religions: A Sociological and Psychological Approach Chapter 3: Pluralism and Religious Institutions The Hartford Declaration Cereal Belongings: special section (0) Books in review The question of the natural attitude (0) 10. The Comic as Weapon: Satire The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity: 1812-1822 FINDINGS OF THE SURVEY OF CULTURAL VALUES OF YOUNGS IN KYZYLORDA REGION (0) At the edge of hope: Christian laity in paradox 8. The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food: Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared (0) The Asian Experience & Caribbean Development Chapter 6: The Political Management of Pluralism ‘Do you want to see the real India?’: An anthropological reading of the film Slumdog Millionaire (0) II. Comic Forms of Expression Haemarrhoids treated by cryotherapy: a critical analysis. (0) The Culture of Unbelief. Epilogue. Studying religion in context: diversity and commonalities in approaches (0) The Genghis Khan Model of Imperialism The role of religion in the longer-range future, April 6, 7, and 8, 2006 (0) Religion as Relation : Studying Religion in Context (0) “He Descended into Hell. On the Third Day he Rose Again. He Ascended into Heaven, and is Seated on the Right Hand of the Father. He will Come Again to Judge the Living and the Dead” Books in review Culture and Socioeconomic Change The War over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground@@@Shaping Tomorrow's Family: Theory and Policy for the 21st Century 6. Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor Recent Books on the Sociology of Religion@@@Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change.@@@Changing Perspectives in the Scientific Study of Religion.@@@Religion in Radical Transition.@@@Suburban Religion: Churches and Synagogues in the American Experience.@@@On the Margin of the Visibl Knowledge and Reality 126 Carolyn Gratton (0) Panel discussion: Religion in the new Europe (0) 3. Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude 11. Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly Special Section 'Cereal Belongings' (0) 7. The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor Social Ethics Montage Death, ritual, and effervescence (0) 5. Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic Do you want to see the real India (0) Feeding, Sharing and Devouring (0) The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness. Who's afraid of religious values? (0) Religion and Desecularization The Forgiveness of Sins Sacrificial Food, the Person and the Ritual System of the Gadaba (0) Menshikov A (0) The Attitude of the Congress of Vienna Toward Nationalism in Germany, Italy and Poland Confession, conflict, and community (0) Chapter 2: Pluralism and Individual Faith Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, Beiträge zur Religionssoziologie = Contributions to the sociology of knowledge, Contributions to the sociology of religion Social Problems and Social Action Beginnings of the New Sociology of Knowledge: Influences, Teachers, and Collaborators He was Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary 13. Interlude: On Grim Theologians the Father Almighty 14. The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence The Supreme Court Celebrates the Bicentennial Rupture and Resilience: Dynamics between a Hindu Reform Movement and an Indigenous Religion in Highland Odisha 4. Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology Secretary of Europe: The Life of Friedrich Gentz, Enemy of Napoleon Pioneers in World Order: An American Appraisal of the League of Nations. Edited by Harriet Eager Davis Modernity and Pluralism Nationalities and National Minorities Reception and Impact of the New Sociology of Knowledge [Medical and social relations: the campaign against tuberculosis in the Lyons region from 1918 to 1975]. (0) Concept of Tribal Society (0) Book Review: “Homo Religiosus” in Mircea Eliade: An Anthropological Evaluation South Africa in comparative context The Anatomy of Peace The American Family--What's the Prognosis? Brill’s Encyclpedia on Hinduism (0) Feeding the Dead (0) Religion and Revolution by Guenter Lewy (Oxford University Press; 694 pp.; $17.50) Toward a New Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age Introduction: Religion as Relation (0) Prefatory Remarks, Self-Serving Explanations, and Unsolicited Compliments 4 Homo ridens: Physiologie und Psychologie review of: Vitebsky, Piers 2017: Living Without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos Closeness and Disjuncture: On Friendship in the Field (0) 12. The Folly of Redemption “I Believe in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord” In Praise of the Automobile Millet, Rice, and the Constitution of Society in Central India (0) 9. The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit There is a Crucial Link Between Culture and Economics (0) Chapter 4: The Secular Discourse Gehlen y las instituciones (0) Constitution of the United Nations of the World 1. The Comic Intrusion Religion as Value (0) A Conversation with Georg Pfeffer (0) “Nicht lebensfähig?”: The Theology of Invasion 2. Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy Obituary Georg Pfeffer (1943-2020) (0) Chapter 1: The Pluralist Phenomenon The Assault on Class Chapter 5: Religion and Multiple Modernities Letters from readers Book Review:Towards a New Sociology-Essays and Studies. Martin Allwood FROM THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: III. Toward a Theology of the Comic Challenge and response: critiques of the Catholic Bishops' draft letter on the US economy (0) Introduction: Cereal Belongings – a cultural perspective on cereals as resource (0) Sociological Theory as an Area of International Collaboration Teil II. Ausdrucksformen des Komischen 14 Das Komische als Signal der Transzendenz Kapitel Zwölf „... Auferstehung der Toten und das ewige Leben ...“ Exkurs: Über christliche Moral Erdmenschen und Flussbräute (0) 10 Komik als Waffe: die Satire 9 Komik als Spiel des Intellekts: Jeux d’Esprit Kommunikation und Gesprächsführung „Sozialer Tod“ und „Wiedergeburt“ des Ethnografen. Erfahrungen aus der Stammesregion Orissa, Indien (0) Die lange Reise der Toten (0) Zwischen Relativismus und Fundamentalismus : Peter L. Berger im Dialog über das "Lob des Zweifels" ; Vortrag am 12.05.2010 Exkurs: Über das Gebet im Namen Christi Kapitel Fünf „Und an Jesus Christus, seinen eingeborenen Sohn, unseren Herrn ...“ Kapitel Sieben „... gelitten unter Pontius Pilatus, gekreuzigt, gestorben und begraben ...“ Abkehr vom Imperialismus: neuer "intellektuell-industrieller Komplex" in den USA (0) Füttern, Speisen und Verschlingen (0) 3 Lachende Mönche: Ein ganz kurzes sino-japanologisches Intermezzo 8 Komik als Trost: Tragikomik Kapitel Acht „... hinabgestiegen in das Reich des Todes, am dritten Tage auferstanden von den Toten, aufgefahren in den Himmel; er sitzt zur Rechten Gottes, des allmächtigen Vaters; von dort wird er kommen, zu richten die Lebenden und die Toten.“ Die lange Reise der Toten : Zwei Studien zu Ideologie und Praxis des Todes in Süd- und Südostasien (0) 12 Die Narrheit der Erlösung Kapitel Neun „Ich glaube an den Heiligen Geist...“ Kapitel Vier „... den Schöpfer des Himmels und der Erde.“ Teil III. Auf dem Weg zu einer Theologie des Komischen Anmerkungen zu den Kapiteln Kapitel Eins „Ich glaube ...“ Recencie: Der Abschied von den Toten. Trauerrituale im Kulturvergleich (0) Feldforschung : Berliner Perspektiven auf eine ethnologische Methode (0) Rolle und Individuum. Zur Konstitution sozialer Rollen Kapitel Elf „... Vergebung der Sünden ...“ Europa und die neue Völkerwanderung Nachruf: Georg Pfeffer (1943-2020) (0) Kategorien und Thesen zur Kleingruppengesellschaft 7 Komik als Ablenkung: Gutmütiger Humor 11 Zwischenspiel: Die ewige Wiederkehr der Narrheit 6 Zwischenspiel: Gedanken zum jüdischen Humor Kapitel Zwei „... an Gott ...“ Erdmenschen und Flussbräute: Natur, Umwelt und Gesellschaft im Hochland von Orissa, Indien (0) Vorwort zur deutschen Erstausgabe 5 Homo ridiculus: Gesellschaftliche Konstruktionen des Komischen Kirche als Institution: Einfuhrung in die Religionssoziologie Kapitel Zehn „... die heilige allgemeine Kirche, Gemeinschaft der Heiligen ...“ Schlußbemerkung zur Reichweite soziologischer Handlungstheorie 1 Das Eindringen des Komischen in den Alltag Vorbemerkungen, parteiische Erläuterungen in eigener Sache und ein paar Komplimente Kapitel Sechs „... empfangen durch den Heiligen Geist, geboren von der Jungfrau Maria ...“ Exkurs: Über das leere Grab und andere Wunder Protestbewegung und Revolution, oder, Die Verantwortung der Radikalen : Radikalismus in Amerika (0) 2 Philosophien des Komischen und die Komödie der Philosophie Teil I. Anatomie des Komischen 13 Zwischenspiel: Von grimmigen Theologen Kapitel Drei „... den Vater, den Allmächtigen ...“ Verletzungen, gewaltsamer Tod und Körperbeschädigung aus physikalischer Ursache More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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