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This dissertation endeavors to examine the influence that the sacred plays in society by determining if religion’s institutional position as displayed through the presence of the moral communities is pivotal to society’s ability to control criminal behavior. Throughout academic …

Tradition is a modern idea, designating a cultural totality with which one presumably stands in an objective--if also engaging--relation; serving as a key term for many historical studies, it is especially indispensable to the study of religion which, in distinction from theolog…

The dissertation offers one of the first comparative and purely “sociological” studies of fatalism. The aim of the project is to evaluate the distinct Weberian and Durkheimian theoretical perspectives on the subject of fatalism and offer a more comprehensive analytical formulati…