TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharot,Stephen
ED  - NYU Press
TI  - A comparative sociology of world religions: virtuosos, priests, and popular religion 
SN  - 0814798047
AV  - BL60 .S529 2001
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Religions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index; World religions, elites, and popular religion; -- Religious action : a Weberian model; -- Elites and masses : Max Weber, Weberian scholars, and Marxist analysis; -- China : state religion, elites, and popular religion in a syncretistic milieu; -- India : Brahmans, renouncers, and popular Hinduism; -- Nirvana and spirits : Buddhism and animism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia; -- Hierocracy and popular religion : Catholicism in 'traditional' Europe; -- Elite scholars and popular saints : a brief excursus on Islam and Judaism; -- Protestants, Catholics, and the reform of popular religion; -- Comparisons
ER  -