Peter Berger Resources:

 

See comments on Peter Berger in my thesis

 

Barnes and Noble Faculty list

 

Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective 1963 (notes)

The Social Construction of Reality (with Thomas Luckmann) 1966

The Precarious Vision

 

The Noise of Solemn Assemblies 1961

The Sacred Canopy 1967

The Heretical Imperative 1979

 

PETER BERGER was born in Vienna and came to this country in his late teens. He has a Master's and Doctor's degree from the New School for Social Research in New York. After two years in the United States Army he taught at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina before going to the Hartford Seminary Foundation as an Assistant Professor in Social Ethics.

 

See these texts on-line at Religion On Line

 

Peter Berger

Reflections of an Ecclesiastical Expatriate (1248)
Protestantism and the Quest for Certainty (2884)
Epistemological Modesty: An Interview with Peter Berger (3533)
Cakes for the Queen of Heaven: 2,500 Years of Religious Ecstasy (704)
The Class Struggle in American Religion (297)
From Secularity to World Religions (488)

 

Links to Amazon.com’s pages with some of his books:

 

Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective
by Peter L. Berger

 

The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann (Paperback - July 1967)

 

The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
by Peter L. Berger

 

A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural
by Peter L. Berger (Paperback - January 1970)

 

Movement and Revolution
by Peter L. Berger

 

The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness
by Peter L. Berger

 

Pyramids of Sacrifice
by Peter L. Berger

 

Against the World for the World: The Hartford Appeal and the Future of American Religion
by Peter L. Berger, Richard John Neuhaus

 

To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy
by Peter L. Berger

 

Sociology: a biographical approach
by Peter L. Berger

 

Facing Up to Modernity: Excursions in Society, Politics, and Religion
by Peter L. Berger

 

Sociology Reinterpreted: An Essay on Method and Vocation
by Peter L. Berger

 

Speaking to the 3rd World: Essays on Democracy and Development (Aei Studies 425)
by Peter L. Berger

 

Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
by Peter L. Berger

 

The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions About Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty
by Peter L. Berger

 

American Apostasy: The Triumph of 'Other' Gospels (Encounter Series, No. 10)
by Peter L. Berger, et al (Paperback - April 1989)

 

The Capitalist Spirit: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation
by Peter L. Berger (Editor) (Hardcover - December 1990)

 

A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity
by Peter L. Berger

 

To Empower People: From State to Civil Society
by Peter L. Berger, et al (Hardcover - February 1996)

 

Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity (Religion and the Modern World) by Peter L. Berger

 

Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience
by Peter L. Berger (Hardcover - June 1997)

 

The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies: A Report of the Bertelsmann Foundation to the Club of Rome
by Peter L. Berger (Editor), Bertelsmann Stiftung

 

The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics
by Peter L. Berger (Editor), et al (Paperback - July 1999)

 

Many Globalizations : Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World
by Peter L. Berger (Editor), Samuel P. Huntington (Editor) (Hardcover - June 2002)

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