Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion: A Response to Jean-Pierre Reed:A response to Jean-Pierre Reed
In: Altglas , V 2022 , ' Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion: A Response to Jean-Pierre Reed : A response to Jean-Pierre Reed ' , Critical Research on Religion , vol. 10 , no. 1 , pp. 112-115 . https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032221075383
This piece is a response to Jean-Pierre Reed's review of Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion published in Critical Research on Religion. Aside from his appreciation for the contributions of this volume, Jean-Pierre Reed's critique concentrates on three fundamental issues in relation to the agenda for a critical sociology of religion we advance: scientificism, interdisciplinarity, and politics. This response focuses on scientificism and politics in particular, since they are intimately related and at the core of this book's evaluation of the subfield.