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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: American Babylon? -- Part I: Elective affinities: Christianity and democracy in Western history -- 1 Is democracy Christian? -- Prologue: "elective affinities" -- Christian ethics and democratic politics -- The four layers of Western democracy -- Republican democracy -- Representative democracy -- Liberal democracy -- The fourth layer: social democracy -- Conclusion: democracy and religion -- Note -- References -- 2 Is Christianity democratic? -- Ancient Israel: covenants and kings

Meta-principles for sociological research in a Bourdieusian perspective / David Swartz -- For the social history of the present : Bourdieu as historical sociologist / Craig Calhoun -- Comparative and transnational history and the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu : theory and practice / Christophe Charle -- Rational choice may take over / Ivan Ermakoff -- Return of the repressed : the "Traumatic kernel" of psychoanalysis in Bourdieusian theory / George Steinmetz -- Bourdieu and Dewey on democracy / Mustafa Emirbayer and Erik Schneiderhan -- Spaces between fields / Gil Eyal -- The formation of intellectual fields : American social science, c.1880-1910 / Charles Camic -- T.H. Marshall meets Pierre Bourdieu : citizens and paupers in the development of the U.S. welfare state / Chad Goldberg -- Nation-ization struggles : a Bourdieuian theory of nationalism / Philip Gorski -- Structural history and crisis analysis : the literary field in France during WWII / Gisèle Sapiro -- The transmission of masculinities : the case of early modern France / Robert Nye -- The making of a field with weak autonomy : the case of the sporting field in France, 1895-1955 / Jacques Defrance

Bourdieu and Historical Analysis explores the usefulness of Pierre Bourdieu s thought for analyzing not only the reproduction of social structures but also large-scale sociohistorical change.

"This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding the most urgent and compelling questions raised by the place of religion in the social sciences, past and present, The Post-Secular in Question restores religion to a more central place in social scientific thinking about the world, helping to move scholarship 'beyond unbelief.'"--Jacket

What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe-and the world

AbstractThe fact‐value distinction is leaky. The problem is not just that values can color facts. The reverse is also true: facts are also entangled with values. Nor is that the end of the matter. The concepts of fact and value are not epistemologically or ethically neutral either. It is time to abandon the quest for axiological neutrality in favor of systematic attention to the complex relationship between the descriptive and the normative. Instead of attempting to be neutral, social scientists should strive to combine engagement with open‐mindedness.