Brief Introduction:

Deriving from "foreign sociology", "social theory" pays attention to the entire social and human sciences, takes the theory of "social life and the cultural product of human action" into the horizon. It continues to review sociological theory in various foreign countries and the latest trend of the world. It also focuses on our scholars’ theory of Chinese problems as a reference to foreign social theory, particularly the original one and the one taking root in the local Chinese experience, in order to encourage and hasten the local Chinese characteristics, the concerns to domestic and social development, and to promote the development of Chinese social studies and research.

Content

Central theme: religion and society

The value of the religion in the globalizing era: inquiring into the possibility of turning civilizations clash to civilized coexistence  Fan Lizhu / 1

Insitutional religion: the dual mechanism of belief and anti-belief: the core issue of Chinese religious sociology   Li Xiangping / 20

Proper way to make money: the benefits of Buddhist economic Ethics to the life of secular rational economics   Shi Jianpi/ / 47

 Max Weber: the comparative religious sociology using the West as a benchmark  He Rong / 66

"Overhanging" Christianity: Christianity’s Location in the contemporary social structure: a case study on the Christian churches in X county Y town of southern Zhejiang      Li Feng / 83

Social Transformation and religious conversion: a study of Christians in Shanxi    Liang Liping / 105

Worldliness and transcendence: the differences between early Taoist and Christian   Chang Ping / 127 　　Sociological Forum

China's modernization and its Sociological reflection in Risk social background  Jun-Min Wang / 181

research on Risk from multiple perspectives   Zhao Yandong / 199

routine order and transcending intellect: Analysis of the modern Enlightenment of Durkheim     Ha Guangtian / 213

Consumer form and its social consequences: a case of Tourism  Zhang Duifu / 234

Classical theory

Adam Smith's thought of humanity and nature   Wang Nan / 247

Analysis of Schools

social division and integration from perspective of system: research on Luhmann’s thought of social division             Lv Huafu / 274

Niklas Luhmann’s idea of "world community"       [Germany] Andreas • Cayman, translated by Zhang Qirui / 313

Editor Note / 333

Note to Authors / 336