Turner, Bryan S

The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion - U K Wiley Blackwell 2016 - 691p - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology ; 201600ENGGPS1 .

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Foundations ..........31 The Sociology of Religion : The Foundations ...........33 Durkheim and After : Religion, culture, and Politics ...........52 The Functional Theory of Religion ..........76 Recent developments in the Anthropology of Religion .....103 2. From Secularization to Resacralization .....123 Secularization ......125 American Exceptionalism .........141 Resacralization .........160 3. new Developments ..........179 Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion ...........181 The Religious Habitus: Embodiment, Religion, and Sociological Theory .........201 Women, Religions, and Feminisms ............221 4. Institutionalization : Old and new Forms ...........245 New Research on Megachurches : Non-Denominationalism and Sectarianism ..........247 The Sociology of Spirituality : Reflections on a Problematic Endeavor................267 Arguing against darwinism : Religion, Science, and Public Morality .........286 5. Sociology of Comparative Religions .......309 The Sociology of Early Christianity : From History to Theory, and Back again ................311 Judaism : Covenant, plualism and piety ..........340 Sociology and anthropology of Islam : A Critical Debate ..........364 Approaches to the Study of Buddhism .............388 Sociology of Hinduism ........407 Religious awakening in China Under Communist Rule : A political Economy Approach .............431 Native american Religious Traditions : A sociological Approach ..........456 6. Globalization ..............475 Globalization and the Sociology of Religion ................477 Pentecostal and Charismatic Movement in a Global Perspective .......498 Fundamentalism ..............519 Religion, Media, and Globalization ...........544 Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodification .........563 Women and Piety movements .......584 Religion and Nationalism : A Critical Re-Examination .............606 7. The Future of Religion .............627 The Future of Religion .........629 Religion in a Post-Secular Society .............649

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Religion and Sociology

C82 / T851