Introduction
Some years ago, Thomas Schwinn (2013) reminded us of the current lack of exchange between sociological differentiation theory and the sociology of religion. Historically, the latter was often – explicitly or implicitly – based on differentiation-theoretical assumptions, and some outstanding theorists of social differentiation, such as Max Weber, Niklas Luhmann or Pierre Bourdieu, took religion as one of their prime examples. Since these scholars’ theories came to prominence, however, developments in sociological differentiation theory have hardly been taken into account in the sociology of religion, and vice versa. This is even true of the German discourse on sociology of ...
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