Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles
In this study, I analyze the main topics and results introduced in recent publications in the sociology of religion. Briefly touching upon the practical use of identification of major topics covered in published literature during the process of publication output planning, we continue the article...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Hungarian Communication Studies Association
2017-07-01
|
| Series: | KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://komejournal.com/files/KOME_TJJ.pdf |
| _version_ | 1818556877480394752 |
|---|---|
| author | János Tóth |
| author_facet | János Tóth |
| author_sort | János Tóth |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | In this study, I analyze the main topics and results introduced in recent
publications in the sociology of religion. Briefly touching upon the practical use of
identification of major topics covered in published literature during the process of
publication output planning, we continue the article with the thematical analysis of those
journal articles in the sociology of religion, in which the presented research did not
focus on a specific religion or on the believers of a specific religion. We examined the
adherence to this criterion of lack of specification in 173 articles published in leading
international journals between 2010 and 2013, from the journal list of the Institute of
Sociology of the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), from which 66 journal articles
were coded and classified with inductive categorization consistent with grounded
theory. Throughout the process, we managed to identify 6 main topics (Secularization,
Economy, Sexuality, Politics, Personal Satisfaction, and Well-Being, Social CoExistence,
and Cooperation). We then further divided each of these key themes into
subtopics, and we examined the studies further, according to the institutional affiliation
of first author(s), institutional affiliation of journal editors, and geographic location of
journal publishers. Results show that the identified topics and topic preferences are
characteristics of a subset of a Western sociological knowledge, produced mainly by
agents embedded in an Anglo-Saxon research environment. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-13T23:52:54Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-f91ec5def6f64d20b9049ac916ddef85 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2063-7330 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-13T23:52:54Z |
| publishDate | 2017-07-01 |
| publisher | Hungarian Communication Studies Association |
| record_format | Article |
| series | KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry |
| spelling | doaj.art-f91ec5def6f64d20b9049ac916ddef852022-12-21T23:26:43ZengHungarian Communication Studies AssociationKOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry2063-73302017-07-015112114610.17646/KOME.2017.18Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal ArticlesJános Tóth0Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, Department of Communication and Media Studies, HungaryIn this study, I analyze the main topics and results introduced in recent publications in the sociology of religion. Briefly touching upon the practical use of identification of major topics covered in published literature during the process of publication output planning, we continue the article with the thematical analysis of those journal articles in the sociology of religion, in which the presented research did not focus on a specific religion or on the believers of a specific religion. We examined the adherence to this criterion of lack of specification in 173 articles published in leading international journals between 2010 and 2013, from the journal list of the Institute of Sociology of the HAS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), from which 66 journal articles were coded and classified with inductive categorization consistent with grounded theory. Throughout the process, we managed to identify 6 main topics (Secularization, Economy, Sexuality, Politics, Personal Satisfaction, and Well-Being, Social CoExistence, and Cooperation). We then further divided each of these key themes into subtopics, and we examined the studies further, according to the institutional affiliation of first author(s), institutional affiliation of journal editors, and geographic location of journal publishers. Results show that the identified topics and topic preferences are characteristics of a subset of a Western sociological knowledge, produced mainly by agents embedded in an Anglo-Saxon research environment.http://komejournal.com/files/KOME_TJJ.pdfpublication analysisthematical analysissociology of religionAnglophone dominance |
| spellingShingle | János Tóth Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry publication analysis thematical analysis sociology of religion Anglophone dominance |
| title | Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles |
| title_full | Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles |
| title_fullStr | Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles |
| title_short | Common Topics of Sociology of Religion in Non-Religion-Specific Journal Articles |
| title_sort | common topics of sociology of religion in non religion specific journal articles |
| topic | publication analysis thematical analysis sociology of religion Anglophone dominance |
| url | http://komejournal.com/files/KOME_TJJ.pdf |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT janostoth commontopicsofsociologyofreligioninnonreligionspecificjournalarticles |