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Peter L. Berger is an internationally renowned sociologist, and the founder of Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. He was born in Vienna and came to the U.S. in his late teens. He has a master's degree and a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in New York. After two years in the United States Army, he taught at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina before going to the Hartford Seminary Foundation as an Assistant Professor in Social Ethics.

In 1992, Peter Berger was awarded the Manes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture. He is the author of many books, among them The Social Construction of Reality, The Homeless Mi...more

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The Relocation of Anti-Semitism

The May 2012 issue of Commentary (the generally conservative monthly with a strong Jewish focus) carries an article by Michael Medved, entitled “What the Evangelicals Give to Jews”. Medved is a highly productive writer and television personality, very articulate and almost always interesting. Based in California, he is an observant Orthodox Jew, who has moved politically from left to right (he...

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	The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann 4.04 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 1966 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion 3.78 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective 3.85 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1963 — 9 editions	My rating:
	In Praise of Doubt by Peter L. Berger, Anton Zijderveld 3.48 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural 3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1970 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [God’s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if God’s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.”
― Peter L. Berger

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“...his consuming interest remains in the world of men, their institutions, their history, their passions. And because he is interested in men, nothing that men do can be altogether tedious...He will naturally be interested in the events that engage men’s ultimate beliefs, their moments of tragedy and grandeur and ecstasy. But he will also be fascinated by the commonplace, the everyday. He will know reverence, but this reverence will not prevent him from wanting to see and to understand. He may sometimes feel revulsion or contempt , but this will also not deter him from wanting to have his questions answered. ...in his quest for understanding, moves through the world of men without respect for the usual lines of demarcation. Nobility ad degradation, power and obscurity, intelligence and folly -- these are equally interesting to him, however unequal they may be in his personal values or tastes. This his questions may lead him to all possible levels of society, the best and least known places, the most respected and the most despised. ...he will find himself in all these places because his own questions have so taken possession of him that he has little choice but to seek for answers.”
― Peter L. Berger

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