ISBN:
9780429619175
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (235 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Day, Abby Sociology of Religion
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Religion and sociology-Textbooks
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I Mapping the field -- Chapter 1 What is a sociology of religion? -- Inventing sociology -- Materialism and the social -- From material to meaning -- Durkheim and the social collective -- The function of religion -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 2 How do we know what we know? -- Introduction -- Religion is 'man' made -- Questioning the questioner -- Sociology of religion and ethnography -- Asking questions -- Surveys -- Ethics and method -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 3 The contemporary religious landscape: Retreat, reinvention and resurgence -- Introduction -- Retreat -- Reinvention -- New religious movements -- Resurgence -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Part II Religion and its publics -- Chapter 4 Politics and religion -- Introduction -- Locating the study of politics and religion -- At stake is the state: sharing the load -- Religion and nationalism -- Religion and politics by census -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 5 Violence and crime -- Introduction -- Defining religious violence -- Religious genocide -- Religious terrorism -- Suicide bombing -- Religious response to crime -- Creating the criminal subject -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 6 Policing religion: Religious equality, social justice and the law -- Introduction -- What are 'human rights'? -- The public, the private: are human rights sacred? -- The role of the state in human rights -- Human rights and religion: case examples -- Right to education -- Right to work with religious beliefs -- Courts compared: the ECHR and Supreme Court (USA) -- The right to rights -- 'Rights' and the conservative/liberal divide -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Part III Contested borders -- Chapter 7 Gender and sexuality -- Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
The body in the sociology of religion -- Defying definition -- On power -- Adapting and resisting -- Saving and surrendering 'self' -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 8 Generations -- 'Generation': a contested concept -- Age and alcohol -- Age and voting -- Age and marriage -- Age and military service -- Age and religious change -- The 'baby-boomer' effect -- Young people retaining and reviving religion -- Religion, youth and politics -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 9 'Race', ethnicity, social class -- Introduction -- 'Race' -- From 'race' to ethnicity -- Explaining racism -- Identity politics -- Social class -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Part IV Is nothing, or everything, sacred? -- Chapter 10 Religion and media -- Religion, media and changing times -- Media and the role of the state -- Digital religious spaces -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 11 Disease, disability and the religious response -- Introduction -- The religious 'problem' -- Multiple healing agents -- Care versus cure -- Miraculous healing -- Religion, disability and stigma -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 12 Future religion: Nones and beyond -- Introduction -- Noting the 'nones' -- Everyday ghosts: a 'secular', social, sensuous supernatural -- Spiritual but not religious? -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Index
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