A comparative sociology of world religions virtuosos, priests, and popular religion /

Main Author: Sharot, Stephen.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, c2001.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10032485
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300 |a vii, 344 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-335) and index. 
505 0 |a World religions, elites, and popular religion -- Religious action : a Weberian model -- Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis -- China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic milieu -- India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism -- Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia -- Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe -- Elite scholars and popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism -- Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion -- Comparisons. 
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