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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, and how it might look at the beginning of the next millennium. Traces the boundaries between sociology and other closely related disciplines, such as theology and social anthropology. Edited by one of the best known and most widely respected sociologists of religion Accessibly presented in three comprehensive parts.
Contents
List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Preface. PART I. CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY: RECYCLING, CONTINUITY, PROGRESS, OR NEW DEPARTURES? Editorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular; the Sacred and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument. 1. Personal Reflections in the Mirror of Halevy and Weber (David Martin) 2. Salvation, Secularization, and De-moralization (Bryan Wilson) 3. The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for the Sociology of Religion (Bernice Martin) 4. Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender-Blindness to Gendered Difference (Linda Woodhead) 5. Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams (Donald Capps) 6. Georg Simmel: American Sociology Chooses the Stone the Builders Refused (Victoria Lee Erickson) 7. Transformations of Society and the Sacred in Durkheim's Religious Sociology (Donald A. Nielsen) 8. Classics in the Sociology of Religion: An Ambiguous Legacy (Roger O'Toole) 9. Individualism, the Validation of Faith, and the Social Nature of Religion in Modernity (Daniele Hervieu-Leger) 10. The Origins of Religion (Richard K. Fenn) PART II. CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN THE RELATION OF RELIGION TO SOCIETY. Editorial Commentary: Whose Problem is it? The Question of Prediction versus Projection. 11. Secularization Extended: From Religious Myth to Cultural Commonplace (Nicholas J. Demerath III) 12. Social Movements as Free-floating Religious Phenomena (James A. Beckford) 13. The Social Process of Secularization (Steve Bruce) 14. Patterns of Religion in Western Europe: An Exceptional Case (Grace Davie) 15. The Future of Religious Participation and Belief in Britain and Beyond (Robin Gill) 16. Religion as Diffusion of Values. Diffused Religion in the Context of a Dominant Religious Institution: The Italian Case (Roberto Cipriani) 17. Spirituality and Spiritual Practice (Robert Wuthnow) 18. The Renaissance of Community Economic Development Among African-American Churches in the 1990s (Katherine Day) 19. Hell as a Residual Category: Possibilities Excluded from the Social System (Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte0 PART III. THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION AND RELATED AREAS OF INQUIRY. Editorial Commentary: Looking for the Boundaries of the Field: Social Anthropology, Theology, and Ethnography. 20. Acting Ritually: Evidence from the Social Life of Chinese Rites (Catherine Bell) 21. Moralizing Sermons, Then and Now (Thomas Luckmann) 22. Health, Morality and Sacrifice: The Sociology of Disasters (Douglas J. Davies) 23. Contemporary Social Theory as it Applies to the Understanding of Religion in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Peter Beyer) 24. The Return of Theology: Sociology's Distant Relative (Kieran Flanagan) 25. Epilogue: Toward a Secular View of the Individual (Richard K. Fenn) Index.
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