The Sacred Canopy

BERGER,P

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Author
BERGER,P
Publish Date
10/01/1990
Book Type
hardcover
Publisher Name
BANTAM
Subtitle
Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
Number of Pages
240
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0385073054
ISBN-13
9780385073059
SKU
9780385073059

Description

An absorbing and original examination that brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs—featuring illustrations drawn from a variety of primitive, ancient, and contemporary religions.

In this book, Berger that religion is the "sacred canopy" which every human society builds over its world to give it meaning, expanding on theories of knowledge that he first explored (with Thomas Luckmann) in The Social Construction of Reality.