Need help with Sociologists?

Question

Does anyone know any sociologists involved in Religion/ Religion at home etc, any research on why people dont attend Church? please anything would be helpful

Answer 1

As a sociology student myself I suggest you read Durkheim

and then go to your library and look on the library search engine or look at amazon. Remember secularisation is a very popular subject and an issue which is in current debate.

Answer 2

Durkheim with anomie.

Max Weber is also interesting.

Wikipedia will help you further

Answer 3

Many early sociologists predicted that religion would vanish in the future as they observed the world becoming more secularized during their lifetime. Functionalists such as Saint-Simon, Comte, Spencer, etc. were positivists, meaning they believed everything could be explained with science. August Comte, who coined the term "sociology", even tried to replace religion with science and create a religion of positivism in later life.

..."Why people don't attend church"? Not everybody is a Christian - that's the obvious answer. Although 92% of the country believes in God, religious affiliation is waning rapidly (there have been many recent articles about this, for example: http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/20... ) Do you mean to ask "why people who are Christian don't attend church"? That would be a much more appropriate question.

I know of more data and theory (esp. Durkheim) about why people who don't necessarily believe a church's theology still attend. But reasons for people who do feel close to their religion but do NOT attend church isn't as widely available.

A quick search on googlescholar turned up this article, which seems interesting: http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8294...  

I'm sure you can find many more if you search "church attendance" or "secularization" on google scholar.