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  <title><![CDATA[The Sociology of Religion]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished a review of Weber in how institutions think by Mary Douglas.  Not suprisingly, she used Weber to show how institutions create and think in categories.  I always thought the Sociology of Religion was primarily a list of taxonomies that, while being fun for academics to play with, are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5811748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More useful than other theories of religion, but I still didn't like it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps I should have put up a buffer between this and Durkheim's &quot;Elements of the Religious Life&quot; because the first 2/3 of the book were dragging completely.  Might be because I am familiar with a lot of the territory.  The insights came at the end for me about economics, class and caste....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17903957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part of my relative dislike of this book is that I don't care a whit about soc of religion, part of it is that Weber is such a labor to read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A detailed and multilayered work.]]></body>
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