The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion / edited by James A. Beckford and N.J. Demerath III.
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
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2007.
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 746 pages ; 26 cm |
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Handbook of the sociology of religion.
Sociology of religion. |
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Contents:
- Classical tradition in sociology of religion / Randall Collins
- Assessing modernities : from 'pre-' to 'ultra-' / Kevin J. Christiano
- Secularization and sacralization deconstructed and reconstructed / N. J. Demerath III
- Rational choice and religious economies / Frank J. Lechner
- Globalization and glocalization / Peter Beyer-- Micro qualitative approaches to the sociology of religion : phenomenologies, interviews, narratives, and ethnographies / James V. Spickard
- Surveys of behaviour, beliefs and affiliation : micro-quantitative / David Voas
- History, methodologies, and the study of religion / John R. Hall
- Congregations resurgent / N.J. Demerath III, Arthur E. Farnsley II
- Evangelicalism and fundamentalism : the politics of global popular protestantism / Paul Freston
- From 'cults' to new religious movements : coherence, definition, and conceptual framing in the study of new religious movements / Thomas Robbins, Phillip Charles Lucas
- New age religion and irreligion / William Sims Bainbridge
- Civil religion in America and in global context / Marcela Cristi, Lorne L. Dawson
- Keepers of the tradition : religious professionals and their careers / Paula Nesbitt
- Orders and schisms on the sacred periphery / Patricia Wittberg
- Faith-based initiatives / Arthur E. Farnsley II
- Religion on the internet / Douglas E. Cowan
- Religion and the state, violence and human rights / N.J. Demerath III
- Religion and regulation / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson
- Religion in rebellion, resistance, and social movements / Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Rhys H. Williams
- Religious affiliations, political preferences and ideological alignments / Laura R. Olson
- Cross-national comparisons of individual religiosity / Pierre Bréchon
- Rethinking the relationship between ethnicity and religion / Peter Kivisto
- Religious socialization among American youth : how faith shapes parents, children, and adolescents / John P. Bartkowski
- Age, generation, and cohort in American religion and spirituality / Michele Dillon
- Religion and identity / Arthur L. Greil, Lynn Davidman
- Gender differences in religious practice and significance / Linda Woodhead
- Embodiment, emotion and religious experience : religion, culture and the charismatic body / Philip A. Mellor
- Religion as a factor in life and death through the life-course / Stephen J. Hunt
- Oligopoly dynamics : official religions in China / Fenggang Yang
- Religious landscape of Central and Eastern Europe after communism / Irena Borowik
- Judaism in Israe l : public religion, neo-traditionalism, messianism and ethno-religious conflict / Stephen Sharot
- State shinto and religion in post-war Japan / Susumu Shimazono
- Mexico : a mirror for the sociology of religion / Roberto J. Blancarte.