Moving beyond frameworks of charisma scholarship that stress antagonism between
charisma and establishment society, this article discerns and theoretically accounts for more …

Christianity as a cultural force, whether rising or falling, has seldom been analysed through
the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected. This …

This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging
assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist …

The utility of the notion of the religious habitus rests on its capacity to illuminate how
embodied dispositions emergent from routinised practices come to be socially and culturally …

Die kapitalistische Globalisierung führte zu einer historisch einmaligen Konzentration von
Macht und Reichtum in den Händen weniger. Die öffentliche Diskussion hierüber wird dabei …

Bourdieu held that the state in modernity has become the primary agent of consecration,'the
legitimation and naturalization of social difference', a function formerly performed largely by …

The Last Caudillo presents a brief biography of the life and times of General Alvaro
Obregón, along with new insights into the Mexican Revolution and authoritarian rule in Latin …

'Lived religion'signifies a shift of focus—from the institutionalized forms of beliefs and
practices to a more precise focus of attention on the religiosity of the people, of individuals …

This paper is concerned with two faces of Hadhrami dakwah in post-New Order Indonesia.
One is that of Habib Syech bin Abulkadir Assegaf (Habib Syech) who promotes traditional …

Luc Boltanski's programme of pragmatic sociology, now gaining substantial attention among
English-speaking sociologists, was forged in opposition to the supposed excesses and blind …