ISBN:
9781848607965
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 746 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Religion and sociology
Abstract:
This handbook presents an unprecedentedly comprehensive assessment of the field, both where it has been and where it is headed. Like its many distinguished contributors, its topics and their coverage are truly global in their reach
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Figures and Tables; About the Contributors; Introduction; PART I Theories and Concepts; 1 The Classical Tradition in Sociology of Religion; 2 Assessing Modernities: From 'Pre-' to 'Post-' to 'Ultra-'; 3 Secularization and Sacralization Deconstructed and Reconstructed; 4 Rational Choice and Religious Economies; 5 Globalization and Glocalization; PART II Methods of Studying Religion; 6 Micro Qualitative Approaches to the Sociology of Religion: Phenomenologies, Interviews, Narratives, and Ethnographies; 7 Surveys of Behaviour, Beliefs and Affiliation: Micro-Quantitative
Description / Table of Contents:
8 History, Methodologies, and the Study of ReligionPART III Social Forms and Experiences of Religion; 9 Congregations Resurgent; 10 Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: The Politics of Global Popular Protestantism; 11 From 'Cults' to New Religious Movements: Coherence, Definition, and Conceptual Framing in the Study of New Religious Movements; 12 New Age Religion and Irreligion; 13 Civil Religion in America and in Global Context; PART IV Issues of Power and Control in Religious Organisations; 14 Keepers of the Tradition: Religious Professionals and their Careers
Description / Table of Contents:
15 Orders and Schisms on the Sacred Periphery16 Faith-Based Initiatives; 17 Religion on the Internet; PART V Religion and Politics; 18 Religion and the State; Violence and Human Rights; 19 Religion and Regulation; 20 Religion in Rebellion, Resistance, and Social Movements; 21 Religious Affiliations, Political Preferences, and Ideological Alignments; PART VI Individual Religious Behaviour in Social Context; 22 Cross-National Comparisons of Individual Religiosity; 23 Rethinking the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Religion
Description / Table of Contents:
24 Religious Socialization among American Youth: How Faith Shapes Parents, Children, and Adolescents25 Age, Generation, and Cohort in American Religion and Spirituality; PART VII Religion, Self-Identity and the Life-Course; 26 Religion and Identity; 27 Gender Differences in Religious Practice and Significance; 28 Embodiment, Emotion and Religious Experience: Religion, Culture and the Charismatic Body; 29 Religion as a Factor in Life and Death through the Life-Course; PART VIII Case Studies from Around the World; 30 Oligopoly Dynamics: Official Religions in China
Description / Table of Contents:
31 The Religious Landscape of Central and Eastern Europe after Communism32 Judaism in Israel: Public Religion, Neo-Traditionalism, Messianism, and Ethno-Religious Conflict; 33 State Shinto and Religion in Post-War Japan; 34 Mexico: A Mirror for the Sociology of Religion; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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