Peter L. Berger has been Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University for the past twenty years, and has had a formative influence on both the study of sociology and its application to religion.
Gordon Redding is a specialist on the comparison of alternative systems of capitalism and their societal roots; he has spent 24 years at the University of Hong Kong, and now continuing to research on Asia at INSEAD.
30 Ebooks by Peter L. Berger
Peter L. Berger & Gordon Redding: The Hidden Form of Capital
‘The Hidden Form of Capital’ presents evidence from several parts of the changing world about how the realm of the spirit affects the economy. Instead of adding to the theoretical speculation on the …
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€77.99
Charles L. Glenn: The Ambiguous Embrace
This is a time of far-reaching change and debate in American education and social policy, spurred in part by a rediscovery that civil-society institutions are often better than government at meeting …
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€57.99
Michaela Pfadenhauer & Peter L. Berger: The New Sociology of Knowledge
A classical sociologist can be defined as someone whose ‘works occupied a central position among the sociological ideas and notions of an era.’ Following this criterion, Michaela Pfadenhauer demonstr …
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€92.99
Uwe Siemon-Netto: Luther – Lehrmeister des Widerstands
Wie Luther Hitlers Gegnern den Rücken stärkte Ausgerechnet zum 500-jährigen Reformationsjubiläum suhlen sich Theologen und Publizisten in dem Klischee, dass Martin Luthers Zwei-Reiche-Lehre die Deuts …
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€13.99
Peter L. Berger: Altäre der Moderne
Religionen und religiöse Gemeinschaften weisen gegenwärtig Tendenzen sowohl zu mehr Liberalismus als auch zu mehr Fundamentalismus auf. Das religiöse Feld ist vielschichtiger geworden – und konfliktr …
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€36.99
Peter L. Berger: Altäre der Moderne
Religionen und religiöse Gemeinschaften weisen gegenwärtig Tendenzen sowohl zu mehr Liberalismus als auch zu mehr Fundamentalismus auf. Das religiöse Feld ist vielschichtiger geworden – und konfliktr …
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€36.99
Peter L. Berger & Samuel P. Huntington: Many Globalizations
Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world’s problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. Here Berger and Huntington bring …
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€21.44
Peter L. Berger & Samuel P. Huntington: Many Globalizations
Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world’s problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. Here Berger and Huntington bring …
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€18.25
Peter L. Berger: Future South Africa
This book identifies the key ‘actors’ whose visions and strategies are crucial to the pattern which change will take in South Africa. These actors, their visions and ‘strategic logic’ were subjected …
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€37.12
Peter L. Berger: Future South Africa
This book identifies the key ‘actors’ whose visions and strategies are crucial to the pattern which change will take in South Africa. These actors, their visions and ‘strategic logic’ were subjected …
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€36.96
Peter L. Berger: The Limits Of Social Cohesion
Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions …
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€70.40
Peter L. Berger: The Limits Of Social Cohesion
Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions …
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€69.87
Peter L. Berger & Gordon Redding: The Hidden Form of Capital
‘The Hidden Form of Capital’ presents evidence from several parts of the changing world about how the realm of the spirit affects the economy. Instead of adding to the theoretical speculation on the …
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€39.99
Peter L. Berger: Many Altars of Modernity
This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger, an internationally renowned sociologist of religion. Secularization theory-which saw modernity as leading to a decline of religi …
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€46.87
Peter L. Berger: The Many Altars of Modernity
This book is the summation of many decades of work by Peter L. Berger, an internationally renowned sociologist of religion. Secularization theory—which saw modernity as leading to a decline of religi …
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€39.95
Peter L. Berger: Redeeming Laughter
Amid the variety of human experiences, the comic occupies a distinctive place. It is simultaneously ubiquitous, relative, and fragile. In this book, Peter L. Berger reflects on the nature of the comi …
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€44.45
Peter L. Berger: Erlösendes Lachen
Ubiquitär, relativ und brüchig zugleich ist Humor eine sehr spezifische menschliche Denk- und Ausdrucksform. In diesem Buch geht Peter L. Berger der Natur des Komischen und dessen Bezug zu anderen me …
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€44.41
Peter L. Berger: Erlösendes Lachen
Ubiquitär, relativ und brüchig zugleich ist Humor eine sehr spezifische menschliche Denk- und Ausdrucksform. In diesem Buch geht Peter L. Berger der Natur des Komischen und dessen Bezug zu anderen me …
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€44.95
Peter L. Berger: Redeeming Laughter
Amid the variety of human experiences, the comic occupies a distinctive place. It is simultaneously ubiquitous, relative, and fragile. In this book, Peter L. Berger reflects on the nature of the comi …
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€44.95
Peter L. Berger: Erlösender Glaube?
Woran kann man glauben? Darf der moderne Mensch auf Erlösung hoffen? Hat Jesus noch eine besondere Bedeutung? Es sind grundlegende Fragen an das Christentum von heute, die der amerikanische Religions …
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€54.95
Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann: Social Construction of Reality
A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of everything t …
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€9.49
Peter L. Berger: Sacred Canopy
“The most important contribution to the sociology of religion since Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” (Commonweal). Acclaimed scholar and sociolog …
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€2.55
Peter L. Berger: Invitation to Sociology
The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a c …
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€19.32
Peter L. Berger: Rumor of Angels
A sociologist’s look at the continuing importance of religion and the supernatural in the modern world, “cleverly expounded [and] enhanced by wit” (Kirkus Reviews). Acclaimed s …
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€19.31
Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann: Social Construction of Reality
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociolog …
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€19.13
Robert W. Hefner: Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century
This state-of-the-field overview of Pentecostalism around the world focuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, consid …
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€9.49
Peter L. Berger & Hsiao Hsin-Huang Michael: In Search of an East Asian Development Model
The papers collected in this volume were presented at a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (formerly the Council on Religion and International Affairs). …
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€38.39
Peter L. Berger & Hsiao Hsin-Huang Michael: In Search of an East Asian Development Model
The papers collected in this volume were presented at a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (formerly the Council on Religion and International Affairs). …
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€38.43
