ABSTRACT
It is certain that when assessments are made of sociology in the second half of the twentieth century, Peter Berger’s work will have a prominent place. Moreover, it will occupy a category with few other occupants because, while general theorists have never disappeared altogether, few if any do their theorizing with Berger’s palpability. He is remarkably close to his data, even as his focus is unabashedly abstract. Nowhere is this unusual perspective more apparent than in Berger’s sociology of religion.
