%0 Journal Article
%T Peter L. Berger and the sociology of religion
%A Titus Hjelm
%J Journal of Classical Sociology
%@ 1741-2897
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1468795X18761217
%X Peter L. Berger (1929¨C2017) was one of the most influential sociologists of the last century. In the sociology of religion, his classic status is uncontested. This article examines Berger¡¯s original application of a constructionist sociology of knowledge perspective to the sociology of religion and its application to the theory of secularisation. The article assesses the influence of this work ¨C The Sacred Canopy in particular ¨C through an analysis of publication data and a typification of types of reference. Although the metaphor of the ¡®sacred canopy¡¯ and Berger¡¯s ideas regarding secularisation have been undoubtedly influential, his work never engendered a genuinely constructionist sociology of religion. The reason for this, the article argues, is Berger¡¯s inconsistent application of his own constructionist ideas to his work on religion
%K Constructionism
%K Peter L. Berger
%K Sacred Canopy
%K secularisation
%K sociology of religion
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468795X18761217