The Book Meme

So I was tagged by both Chris Brady and Nick Norelli to spread not only this blog meme but common use of the term "meme" as well which is good since it ultimately waters down the concept as something clearly un-scientific – which it's not Mr. Dawkins and mindless followers of it would probably like you to believe. Why do I say that? Because of the book I am reading which is an example of real sociological theory…

Meme rules:

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.

The book that I am reading and why it is so close to me is Berger, P. (1967). The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. Anchor: New York.

The concentration of religious activities and symbols in one institutional sphere, however, ipso facto defines the rest of society as "the world," as a profane realm at least relatively removed from the jurisdiction of the sacred. The secularizing potential of this conception could be "contained" as long as Christendom, with its sensitive balance of the sacred and the profane, existed as a social reality. With the disintegration of this reality, however, "the world" could all the more rapidly be secularized in that it had already been defined as a realm outside the jurisdiction of the sacred properly speaking.

Before I name those I am going to tag, I thought that I would run down the eight generations of how this got to me starting with the two listed above. James McGrath did this once, who is also on this list, I and thought it was interesting to follow the trail.

8. Nick Norelli and Chris Brady
7. Jim West
6. James McGrath
5. Doug Chaplin
4. Iyov
3. Kevin P. Edgecomb
2. Matt
1. Elizabeth