A handbook of the sociology of religion / Michele Dillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillon, Michele, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 481 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423- 470) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13118-9

1-280-41911-3

0-511-80796-1

0-511-17986-3

0-511-06375-X

0-511-20386-1

0-511-30678-4

0-511-07221-X

OCLC:

171136209