Study Guide for Peter Berger’s The Sacred Canopy
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The dialectic of externalization, internalization, and objectivation
The relations between culture and social structure
The meaning of individuals’ biographies
The following terms: nomos, anomie, theodicy, legitimation, and secularization
The role of religion in legitimating social structure
The challenge to religion posed by human mortality
Different theodicies
The shift from Grace to Justice
Protestantism and secularization
The institutionalization of Christianity and secularization
What religious symbols are understood to refer to in modern times
Religious monopoly vs. market-oriented religion
The Decline in plausibility of religious ideas