1: Peter Clarke: Introduction:Towards a Global Framework and
Organic Understanding of Religion
I: Theory: Classical, Modern and Postmodern
2: William E. Paden: Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and
Teaching of Religion
3: David N. Geller: The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia
in Buddhology, South Asian History, and Anthropological Practice
Theory
4: Hans G. Kippenberg: Max Weber: Religion and Modernization
5: Bryan S. Turner: Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism: the
Kantian Theory of Secularization
6: Inger Furseth: Religion in the Works of Habermas, Bourdieu and
Foucault
7: Malcolm Hamilton: Rational Choice Theory: A Critique
8: Sian Hawthorne: Religion and Gender
9: Robert W. Hefner: Religion and Modernity Worldwide
10: Nikolai Wenzel: Postmodernism and Religion
11: Meerten ter Borg: Religion and Power
12: Matt Waggoner: Culture and Religion
I: Method
13: Ole Preben Riis: Methodology in the Sociology of Religion
14: Jeppe Sinding Jensen: Conceptual Models in the Study of
Religion
15: André Droogers: Defining Religion: A Social Science
Approach
16: K. Helmut Reich: Explaining Religion through Cognitive
Science
III: Religion and related spheres: Morality, Science, Irreligion,
Art and Sexuality
17: William Sims Bainbridge: Science and Religion
18: William Sims Bainbridge: Atheism
19: John Reeder: Religion and Morality
20: Robert Wuthnow: The Contemporary Convergence of Art and
Religion
21: I. M. Lewis: The Social Roots and Meaning of Trance and
Possession
IV: Religion and the State, the Nation, the Law
22: Phillip E. Hammond and David W. Machacek: Religion and the
State
23: Christophe Jaffrelot: Religion and Nationalism
24: James T. Richardson: Religion and the Law: An Interactionist
View
25: Enzo Pace: The Socio-cultural and Socio-religious Origins of
Human Rights
V: Globalisation and its Religious Effects
26: Roland Robertson: Globalization, Theocratization and
Politicized Civil Rights
27: Caroline Plüss: Migration and the Globalization of Religion
28: Anson Shupe: Religious Fundamentalism
29: Gary D. Bouma: Religious Diversity
VI: Standard or Mainstream Religion
30: Karel Dobbelaere: The Meaning and Scope of Secularization
31: Dean R. Hoge: The Sociology of the Clergy
32: Nancy T. Ammerman: Congregations: Local, Social and
Religious
33: Lorne L. Dawson: Church-Sect-Cult:Constructing Typologies of
Religious Groups
34: Sam Zubaida: Sects in Islam
VII: The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion
35: Mathew Guest: The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion
36: Wade Clark Roof: Generations and Religion
37: Penny Edgell: Religion and Family
38: Peter Collins: Religion and Ritual
39: Stewart M. Hoover: Religion in the Media
40: Gary R. Bunt: Religion and the Internet
VIII: New Religion, New Spirituality and Implicit Religion
41: David G. Bromley: New Religious Movements
42: Eva M. Hamberg: Unchurched Spirituality
43: Paul Heelas: Spiritualities of Life
44: Kennet Granholm: The Sociology of Esotericism
45: Edward Bailey: Implicit Religion
XI: Environmental and Social Issues
46: Mary Evelyn Tucker: Religion and Ecology
47: Wendy Cadge: Religion, Spirituality and Health: An
Institutional Approach
48: Titus Hjelm: Religion and Social Problems: A New Theoretical
Perspective
49: Anne Birgitta Yeung: Religion and Social Problems: Individual
and Institutional Responses
50: Bryon R. Johnson: The Role of Religious Institutions in
Responding to Crime and Delinquency
51: Keishin Inaba and Kate Loewenthal: Religion and Altruism
52: Mark Juergensmaeyer: Religious Violence
53: Michael Kirwan: Girard, Religion, Violence, and Modern
Martydom
X: Teaching the Sociology of Religion
54: Eleanor Nesbitt: The Teacher as Religious Ethnographer
55: James V. Spickard: Ethnography/ Religion: Explorations in Field
and Classroom
Index
`This handsome book... is particularly welcome and should find a
place in every well-stocked library, both academic and other... I
particulary like the mix of experienced and younger scholoars who
have been brought together in this volume and applaud the
successful attempt to escape from a study of religion informed by
Western, primarily Christian, notions of religion. A further
question follows from this. Seriously confronting the realities of
religion in
the twenty-first century makes new demands on social science, which
itself emerged from a similar (i.e., Western) context. To what
extent, then, can these demands be met within the parameters of
the
sociology of religion as we know this? Peter Clarke's meticulously
edited volume not only underlines the question, but indicates a way
forward. He is to be warmly congratulated.'
Grace Davie, Theology
`The contributors of these chapters have been chosen from an
impressive pool of top international academics in the field. Not
only has the editor done a great job in finding leading academics
to write on the most topical issues, but also all the contributors
have written a very informative piece, using the most recent data
and theories. All the chapters are a delight to read...This is an
impressive volume that will delight the student as much as the
erudite
in the field. All the academic libraries should order this volume
as it will soon become an essential reference to any subject in the
sociology of religion. It is a must for anyone who calls
himself/herself a sociologist of religion to have a copy of this
book on his/her bookshels.'
Adam Possamai, Australian Religion Studies Review
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