The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion /
The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion is presented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range of outstanding academics, the volume explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look in future.:.; Explores the current status of the sociology of religion,...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell Publishers,
2001.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to religion ;
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Table of Contents:
- Personal reflections in the mirror of Halʹevy and Weber / David Martin
- Salvation, secularization, and de-moralization / Bryan Wilson
- The Pentecostal gender paradox: a cautionary tale for the sociology of religion / Bernice Martin
- Feminism and the sociology of religion: from gender-blindness to gendered difference / Linda Woodhead
- Melancholia, utopia, and the psychoanalysis of dreams / Donald Capps
- Georg Simmel: American sociology chooses the stone the builders refused / Victoria Lee Erickson
- Transformations of society and the sacred in Durkheim's religious sociology / Donald A. Nielsen
- Classics in the sociology of religion: an ambiguous legacy / Roger O'Toole
- Individualism, the validation of faith, and the social nature of religion in modernity / Danièle Hervieu-Lʹeger
- The origins of religion / Richard K. Fenn
- Secularization extended: from religious myth to cultural commonplace / Nicholas J. Demerath III
- Social movements as free-floating religious phenomena / James A. Beckford
- The social process of secularization / Steve Bruce
- Patterns of religion in Western Europe: an exceptional case / Grace Davie
- The future of religious participation and belief in Britain and beyond / Robin Gill
- Religion as diffusion of values. Diffused Religion in the context of a dominant religious institution: the Italian case / Roberto Cipriani
- Spirituality and spiritual practice / Robert Wuthnow
- The Renaissance of community economic development among African-American churches in the 1990s / Katherine Day
- Hell as a residual category: possibilities excluded from the social system / Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte.
- Acting ritually: evidence from the social life of Chinese rites / Catherine Bell
- Moralizing servons, then and now
- Thomas Luckmann
- Health, morality and sacrifice: the sociology of disasters / Douglas J. Davies
- Contemporary social theory as it applies to the understanding of religion in cross-cultural perspective / Peter Beyer
- The return of theology: sociology's distant relative / Kieran Flanagan
- Epilogue: toward a secular view of the individual / Richard K. Fenn.