TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharot,Stephen
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - A comparative sociology of world religions: virtuosos, priests, and popular religion 
AV  - BL60 .S529 2001eb
U1  - 306.6 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Religions
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/gulbargauniversity/Doc?id=10032485
ER  -