He had a wide-reaching influence on contemporary economics, politics, philosophy, sociology, psychology and anthropology.

Gender is an important area of study in many disciplines, such as literary theory, drama studies, film theory, performance theory, contemporary art history, anthropology, sociology, psychology and psychoanalysis.

A particularly important contemporary contribution to the sociology of knowledge is found in the work of Michel Foucault.

It has become a specific branch of contemporary sociology.

According to one scholar, " Eliade may have been the most popular and influential contemporary historian of religion ", but " many, if not most, specialists in anthropology, sociology, and even history of religions have either ignored or quickly dismissed " Eliade's works.

show that there is a vivid discussion in contemporary sociology on the character of contemporary society and the role that technologies, information, communication, and co-operation play in it.

It has become a specific branch of contemporary sociology.

In the domains of psychology, education, and to a lesser degree sociology and cultural studies few observers before kinderculture had studied the ways that the information explosion so characteristic of our contemporary era ( hyperreality ) had operated to undermine traditional notions of childhood and change the terrain of childhood education.

While this intramural contest looms large in retrospect, Mannheim's most active contemporary competitors were in fact other academic sociologists, notably the gifted proto-fascist Leipzig professor, Hans Freyer, and the proponent of formal sociology and leading figure in the profession, Leopold von Wiese.

This book is expected to include contributions that philosophically reflect the Latourian ( including a contribution from Latour himself ) as well as Deleuzian approaches to Tarde, and to also highlight a number of new ways Tarde is being adapted in terms of methods in contemporary sociology, particularly in the area of ethnography, and the study of online communities.

Socio-scientific criticism ( also known as socio-historical criticism and social-world criticism ) is a contemporary form of multidisciplinary criticism drawing on the social sciences, especially anthropology and sociology.

The contemporary period of economic sociology, also known as new economic sociology, was consolidated by the 1985 work of Mark Granovetter titled " Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness ".

Some scholars distinguish Classical Indology from Modern Indology, the former more focussed on Sanskrit and other ancient language sources, the latter on contemporary India, its politics and sociology.

The School of Theology library concentrates on theology, Bible, church history, ministry, and historic Judaism, while Mugar collects in comparative religion and the academic disciplines of religion, philosophy, sociology, including contemporary Jewish life and culture.

He has published widely on issues of political sociology, social movements, urban space and politics, the everyday of politics and religiosity, contemporary Islam, and the Muslim Middle East.

Further, while contemporary Canadian sociology is marked by its breadth of topics and questions – class, power, race, education, ability, work, gender – and, frankly, a commitment to a left-leaning politic, none of this was true in 1965.

* In 2007 Victoria University of Wellington sociology lecturer Mike Lloyd and PhD student Bronwyn McGovern delivered a presentation titled " World Famous in Wellington: Blanket Man as contemporary celebrity " to the New Zealand Folklore Symposium

The first two years are aimed at giving students a multidisciplinary background, primarily focusing on social sciences such as economics, public law, contemporary history, philosophy, sociology and public policy.

Within the Asian sphere, Asian studies combines aspects of sociology, history, cultural anthropology and many other disciplines to study political, cultural and economic phenomena in Asian traditional and contemporary societies.

He was one of the founders of military sociology and made major contributions, along with Samuel P. Huntington, to the establishment of contemporary civil-military relations.

Members of the Department specialize in various stages of the development of philosophy ( Ancient philosophy, the Middle Ages, the Modern era, contemporary and postmodern philosophy ), also carrying out research in various philosophical disciplines ( metaphysics, logic, aesthetics, sociology, political science, religious studies, philosophy of nature, philosophy of history ) and investigating various aspects and problems of philosophy ( ethics of medicine, feminism, applied ethics, interpretation of art, Bible studies, philosophy of language ).

While the Scandinavian branch emphasizes pantheist spirituality rooted in medieval and contemporary Scandinavian folklore, the American branch postulates a " native religion of the peoples of Northern Europe " reaching back into the paleolithic.

Latour suggests that about 90 % of contemporary social criticism in academia displays one of two approaches which he terms “ the fact position and the fairy position .” ( p. 237 ) The fact position is anti-fetishist, arguing that “ objects of belief ” ( e. g., religion, arts ) are merely concepts onto which power is projected ; the “ fairy position ” argues that individuals are dominated, often covertly and without their awareness, by external forces ( e. g., economics, gender ).

Although Jews were heavily taxed, no contemporary authors mention trials or executions based on religious offenses other than those within the Roman religion.

Only when he had mastered Latin did he begin to express himself on major contemporary themes in literature and religion.

Since that time, ADF has developed into one of the world's largest forms of contemporary Druidism practiced as a religion.

Pagan Witchcraft is the largest contemporary pagan religion, having originally developed in the United Kingdom and since spread across the world.

While contemporary biomedicine has distanced itself from its ancient roots in religion and magic, many forms of traditional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine ( CAM ) continue to espouse vitalism in various guises: ' As long as life had its own secret properties, it was possible to have sciences and medicines based on those properties ' ( Grossinger 1980 ).

In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions and the indigenous traditions of the Americas, Central Asia, Australia and Africa ; as well as non-Abrahamic folk religion in general.

There are a number of Pagan authors who have examined the relation of the 20th-century movements of polytheistic revival with historical polytheism on one hand and contemporary traditions of indigenous folk religion on the other.

Linguistically, the contemporary connotation of the words socialism and communism accorded with the adherents ' and opponents ' cultural attitude towards religion.

Whatever religious, mystical or spiritual elements were central to Stonehenge, its design includes a celestial observatory function, which might have allowed prediction of eclipse, solstice, equinox and other celestial events important to a contemporary religion.

Despite the claims of many classical theorists and sociologists immediately after World War II, many contemporary theorists have critiqued secularisation thesis, arguing that religion has continued to play a vital role in the lives of individuals worldwide.

The book claimed to report on the contemporary practice of Pagan religious witchcraft in England, which had supposedly survived as an underground religion for centuries.

Cook believes that both contemporary Jews and contemporary Christians need to reexamine the history of early Christianity, and the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect consisting of followers of a Jewish Jesus, to a separate religion often dependent on the tolerance of Rome while proselytizing among Gentiles loyal to the Roman empire, to understand how the story of Jesus came to be recast in an anti-Jewish form as the Gospels took their final form.

Today, as in his own time ( though for different reasons ), Paley is a controversial figure, a lightning rod for both sides in the contemporary " war between science and religion ".

The most devastating critique came from Durkheim ’ s contemporary, Arnold van Gennep, an expert on religion and ritual, and also on Australian belief systems.

This rejection reflects the relatively narrow definition of " religion " ( zongjiao ) in contemporary China.

His contemporary adversary, E. A. Wallis Budge, however, thought Egyptian religion to be primarily henotheistic where all the gods and goddesses were aspects of the God Ra, similar to the devas in Hinduism.

Richard North further notes that unusually, sib is personified here and in lines 2599 to 2661, and suggests they may be references to Sif in Danish religion: " Both instances may indicate that the poet of Beowulf was in a position to imagine a sixth-century Scandinavia on the basis of his knowledge of contemporary Danish legends.

A contemporary history described Rumley in the following way: " There are 400 Negroes ( half the population of Van Buren Township ) as prosperous as their white neighbors and equal to the whites in morals, religion and intelligence.

The pastoral genre is not known for precise verisimilitude, and, like the assortment of mixed references to ancient religion and contemporary religious figures and customs, this possible inaccuracy may have been included to underscore the play's fantastical and chimeric quality.

Together, these collections provide both a contemporary and historical view of African Americans in education, military service, politics, and religion.