Why read A Rumour of Angels?

Book cover of A Rumour of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

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With unparalleled creativity & impeccable scholarship, this path-breaking classic confronts head-on the thesis that "God is dead." The new essays include discussions on religious politicization & the dilemmas of hardline morality.
Preface
The alleged demise of the supernatural
The perspective of relativizing the relativizers
Theological starting with man
Theological confronting…

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1 author picked A Rumour of Angels as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Joseph A. Scimecca

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When I first read this book, even though I hold a Ph. D in sociology, it changed my whole view of the discipline.

I was very disappointed in graduate school at first. Then I read some of Peter Berger’s works, who until his recent death, was the most well-known sociologist of religion. He wrote about making the case for a supernatural reality. This was something that was, and, still is, considered heretical in sociology.

I met Peter a few years ago and told him how he changed my view of sociology. He smiled.

From Joseph's list on scholarship on sociology and the Christian religion.