Over the years a number of theologians have been using aspects of sociology alongside the more traditional resources of philosophy. In turn, sociologists have also contributed to an interaction between theology and sociology. In his trilogy, the author contributes to the mapping of three abiding ways of relating theology and sociology.

Over the years a number of theologians have been using aspects of sociology alongside the more traditional resources of philosophy. In this book, the author makes a renewed contribution to the mapping of three abiding ways of relating theology and sociology.

This text incorporates relevant debates in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism. It sets out a project for criminology, a criminology of modernity and offers a critique of theorizing without a concern for social totalities.