This book is about the counter-intuitive, awkward influence of religion on sociology in Mexico. More generally though, this is a book about societies in different world religions that strive for secularism on the one hand, and yet on the other hand may blend their most revered scientific rationalities with not onlu their pressing moral concerns, but also their most deeply held beliefs. The books offers no prescription for disentangling these apparently incompatible ways of knowing; it instead invites readers to challenge the acepted narratives, and to rethink the taken-for-granted secularism of the social sciences.
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I
- CHAPTER 1: SOCIOLOGIES IN MEXICO: OVERLOOKED BACKGROUNDS, PERSISTENT TELEOLOGIES
- COLONIAL BACKGROUND
- EARLY POST-COLONIAL PERIOD
- THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
- STAGES OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION
- CURRENT SOCIOLOGIES
- “IMPOSTOR” SOCIOLOGIES
- CHAPTER 2: SOCIOLOGISTS AND SOCIOLOGIES IN MEXICO’S CENTRAL-WEST AND CENTRAL-METROPOLITAN REGIONS
- SOCIOLOGISTS: TRAINING, STANCES AND PROFESSIONAL SENSIBILITIES
- SOCIOLOGIES: MULTIPLE ANALYTICAL FOCI AND REFORMIST DISCOURSES
- PROFESSIONAL REFORMIST SOCIOLOGIES
- CHAPTER 3: SECULAR FORCES: GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS, THE STATE AND MODERNITY/IES
- GOVERNMENTAL AGENDAS AND SOCIOLOGIES
- THE STATE, MODERNITY/IES’ NORMS AND SOCIOLOGIES
- GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, THE STATE’S MODERN NORMS AND NORMATIVE SOCIOLOGIES
- PART II
- CHAPTER 4: SECULARISM, RELIGION AND SOCIOLOGIES: THE VIEWS OF THE RESPONDENTS
- SILENCE, UNAWARENESS, DISAGREEMENT
- AN UNDESIRABLE RELIGION, A SECULAR STATE
- VALUES, SCHEMES, AUTHORITY, RITUALS
- WEBERIAN-MERTONIAN AND DURKHEIMIAN SCENARIOS
- CHAPTER 5: SOCIOLOGY LECTURERS’ CATHOLIC PASTS AND (IR)RELIGIOUS PRESENTS
- HETEROGENEOUS CATHOLIC FAMILIES
- SOCIOLOGY LECTURERS AND CATHOLIC EDUCATION
- SOCIOLOGISTS AND CATHOLIC PRIESTS
- THE PRESENT: A CONTINUUM OF TRAJECTORIES
- (IR)RELIGIOSITIES AND THE SELECTIVE DESIRABILITY OF CATHOLICISM
- CHAPTER 6: THE RELIGIOUS FIELD AND CATHOLICISMS: INSTITUTIONS AND DISCOURSES
- AN AWKWARD RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE: CHRISTIAN DIVERSITY
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S CLERICAL AND LAY STRUCTURES
- THE DISCOURSES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
- AN OVERVIEW OF PEOPLE’S RELIGIOSITIES
- RELIGIOUS DISCURSIVE OFFENSIVES AND MOVES
- CHAPTER 7: CULTURE, HISTORY AND AN OMNI-INTERVENTIONIST NORMATIVE POWER
- RELIGIONS’ DIACHRONIC CAUSALITY AND LIBERAL-NATIONALIST HISTORIOGRAPHY
- COUNTER-REFORMATIONIST CATHOLICISM AND ITS IDEOLOGICAL/NORMATIVE POWER
- INDEPENDENCE AND THE REFORMA PERIOD: THE FALL OF THE CHURCH’S POLITICAL POWER
- REVOLUTIONARY ANTI-CLERICALISM AND THE CATHOLIC RESTORATION
- AN OMNI-INTERVENTIONIST AND MULTI-STRATEGIC NORMATIVE POWER
- CHAPTER 8: CATHOLIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL DISCOURSES: AN EXPLANATORY ACCOUNT
- A CRITICAL-REALIST PERSPECTIVE ON CAUSATION
- A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, HYPER-NORMATIVE SIEGE
- WEAK DISPOSITIONS IN ATHEIST AND NON-RELIGIOUS LECTURERS
- MEDIUM-LEVEL DISPOSITIONS IN SPIRITUAL AND SKEPTICALLY-RELIGIOUS SOCIOLOGISTS
- STRONG DISPOSITIONS IN CATHOLIC LECTURERS
- SECULAR INFLUENCES AND CATHOLICISMS’ EPISTEMOLOGICAL EFFECTS
- CONCLUSIONS: TOWARDS A STRONG PROGRAM IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
- RELIGION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDIES
- TOWARDS A STRONG PROGRAM
- APPENDIX
- INDEX OF FIGURES, MAPS AND TABLES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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