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The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion

Presented in three comprehensive parts, this volume explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look at the beginning of the next millennium.
Print Book, English, 2001
Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2001
Aufsatzsammlung
xx, 485 pages ; 25 cm.
9780631212409, 9780631212416, 063121240X, 0631212418
44702001
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
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