What is qualitative research? Aspers and Corte (2019) make a case for a definition that they
believe captures what many qualitative researchers intuitively know. Although I agree with …

Studies at the confluence of history and social science address issues of causation in three
ways: morphological, variable-centered, and genetic. These approaches to causal …

Abstract The Protestant Reformation is one of the defining events of the last millennium.
Nearly 500 years after the Reformation, its causes and consequences have seen a renewed …

Este libro no tiene exactamente una tesis. En su lugar, lo que ha me ha guiado al escribirlo
es comprender una serie de imágenes singulares del llamado Siglo de Oro, así como de …

We tend to think of consecration as something happening to individuals: We say that
someone has been consecrated when they have been declared a saint, inducted into a hall …

This study explores how organization members manage institutional contradictions in their
everyday life without aiming at change-oriented agency. Drawing on interviews …

What is charisma? And how does it generate influence and power? World-renowned
sociologist Randall Collins explores these and many other questions in a highly readable …

This work offers a detailed reconstruction of the campaigns for and trials resulting in the
beatification (in 1626) and subsequent canonization in 1169 of the Florentine mystic nun …

Historical scholarship suggests that a robust cult of the saints may have helped some
European regions to resist inroads by Protestantism. Based on a neo-Durkheimian theory of …

Der Beitrag plädiert dafür, Bewertung und Entscheidung zu unterscheiden und in ihrer
Beziehung zueinander zu untersuchen. Dadurch können die bislang eher getrennten …