Seinaru Tengai Shinsei Sekai No Shakai Gaku / Original Title: the Sacred Canopy (Chiku Ma Gakugei Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Every society has a system of symbols, a "sacred canopy," that ultimately gives meaning to the entire process. Religion has always been this "sacred canopy," covering the entire society, placing the individual in that symbolic world and giving him or her an identity. This is a classic work in the sociology of religion, which discusses the issue from the perspective of phenomenological sociology, the position that Berger has consistently taken, namely, that all reality is based on the level of intersubjectivity. This is a new horizon in the understanding of religion since Weber and Durkheim.

あらゆる社会はその全過程を究極的に意味づける象徴の体系、「聖なる天蓋」をもつ。宗教はもともとこの「聖なる天蓋」であり、社会全体をすっぽり覆って、その象徴的世界に個人を位置づけ、アイデンティティをあたえる機能を果たしてきた。相互主観のレベルに全ての現実構成の拠点をおくというバーガーが一貫して立脚してきた立場、すなわち現象学的社会学の視点から論じられた宗教社会学の古典的名著。ウェーバー、デュルケム以来の宗教理解の新たな地平。