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1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 481 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511807961
Content:
This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography, ethnicity, life course, inequality, political sociology) into the analysis of religion. Broadly inclusive of traditional research topics (modernity, secularization, politics) as well as newer interests (feminism, spirituality, faith based community action), this handbook illustrates the validity of diverse theoretical perspectives and research designs to understanding the multi-layered nature of religion as a sociological phenomenon
Content:
pt. 1: Religion as a field of sociological knowledge. The sociology of religion in late modernity / Michele Dillon -- Studying religion, making it sociological / Robert Wuthnow -- The ritual roots of society and culture / Robert N. Bellah -- Social forms of religion and religions in contemporary global society / Peter Beyer -- The evolution of the sociology of religion : theme and variations / Grace Davie -- pt. 2: Religion and social change. Demographic methods for the sociology of religion / Michael Hout -- Church attendance in the United States / Mark Chaves and Laura Stephens -- The dynamics of religious economies / Roger Finke and Rodney Stark -- Historicizing the secularization debate : an agenda for research / Philip S. Gorski -- Escaping the procrustean bed : a critical analysis of the study of religious organizations, 1930-2001 / Patricia M.Y. Chang -- Religion and spirituality : toward an integrated analysis / Wade Clark Roof -- pt. 3: Religion and the life course. Religious socialization : sources of influence and influences of agency / Darren Sherkat -- In rhetoric and practice: defining the "good family" in local congregations / Penny Edgell -- Religiousness and spirituality : trajectories and vital involvement in late adulthood / Michele Dillon and Paul Wink -- Religion and health : depressive symptoms and mortality as case studies / Michael McCullough and Timothy Smith -- pt. 4: Religion and social identity. Religious identities and religious institutions / Nancy T. Ammerman -- Religion and the new immigrants / Helen Rose Ebaugh -- A journey of the "straight way" or the "roundabout path" : Jewish identity in the United States and Israel / Arnold Dashefsky, Bernard Lazerwitz, and Ephraim Tabory -- Beyond the synogogue walls / Lynn Davidman -- Dis/location : emerging feminist inquiry in the sociology of religion / Mary Jo Neitz -- pt. 5: Religion, political behavior, and public culture. Religion and political behavior / Jeff Manza and Nathan Wright -- Religious social movements in the public sphere : organization, ideology, and activism / Rhys H. Williams -- Mapping the moral order : depicting the terrain of religious conflict and change / Fred Kniss -- Civil society and civil religion as mutually dependent / N.J. Demerath III -- Religion and violence : social processes in comparative perspective / John R. Hall -- pt. 6: Religion and socioeconomic inequality. Religion, faith-based community organizing, and the struggle for justice / Richard Wood -- Latina empowerment, border realities, and faith-based organizations / Milagros Peña -- "Worldly" or "other worldly"? : activism in an urban religious district / Omar McRoberts
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521806244
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521000789
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521806244
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511807961
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