{"product_id":"companion-sociology-religion-9780631212416","title":"Companion Sociology Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘If a single theme runs through this anthology, it is an appreciation of the process of secularization. Here, however, secularization does not trumpet the demise of religion but provides a lens through which to scrutinize the shifting location and function of religion in urban, industrial, complex societies. Of value as a reference tool at all readership levels.’ \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘The volume takes the reader immediately to the most interesting issues currently debated in the discipline.’ \u003ci\u003eInternational Review of Biblical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a milestone of a book.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Contemporary Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Within the cover there is a very stimulating companion indeed - a more than adequate travel guide for any student or scholar seeking a lively and insightful introduction to the contours of the sociology of religion.\" \u003ci\u003eBSA Network\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Classical and Contemporary Theory: Recycling, Continuity, Progress, or New Departures?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular; the Sacred and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Personal Reflections in the Mirror of \u003ci\u003eHalévy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWeber 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Martin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Salvation, Secularization, and De-moralization 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBryan Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for the Sociology of Religion 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernice Martin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender-blindness to Gendered Difference 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Woodhead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonald Capps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Georg Simmel: American Sociology Chooses the Stone the Builders Refused 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria Lee Erickson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Transformations of Society and the Sacred in Durkheim’s Religious Sociology 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonald A. Nielsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Classics in the Sociology of Religion: An Ambiguous Legacy 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoger O’Toole\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Individualism, the Validation of Faith, and the Social Nature of Religion in Modernity 161\u003cbr\u003eDanièle Hervieu-Léger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Origins of Religion 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard K. Fenn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Contemporary Trends in the Relation of Religion to Society Editorial Commentary: Whose Problem is it? The Question of Prediction versus Projection 197\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Secularization Extended: From Religious “Myth” to Cultural Commonplace 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas J. Demerath III\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Social Movements as Free-floating Religious Phenomena 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames A. Beckford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Social Process of Secularization 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Bruce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Patterns of Religion in Western Europe: An Exceptional Case 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrace Davie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Future of Religious Participation and Belief in Britain and Beyond 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin Gill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Religion as Diffusion of Values. “Diffused Religion” in the Context of a Dominant Religious Institution: The Italian Case 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoberto Cipriani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Spirituality and Spiritual Practice 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Wuthnow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Renaissance of Community Economic Development among African-American Churches in the 1990s 321\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatherine Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Hell as a Residual Category: Possibilities Excluded from the Social System 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Sociology of Religion and Related Areas of Inquiry Editorial Commentary: Looking for the Boundaries of the Field: Social Anthropology, Theology, and Ethnography 363\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Acting Ritually: Evidence from the Social Life of Chinese Rites 371\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Moralizing Sermons, Then and Now 388\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Luckmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Health, Morality and Sacrifice: The Sociology of Disasters 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas J. Davies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Contemporary Social Theory as it Applies to the Understanding of Religion in Cross-cultural Perspective 418\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Beyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Return of Theology: Sociology’s Distant Relative 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKieran Flanagan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Epilogue: Toward a Secular View of the Individual 445\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard K. Fenn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 469\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403423424855,"sku":"9780631212416","price":43.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631212416.jpg?v=1730483429","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/companion-sociology-religion-9780631212416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}