{"product_id":"the-blackwell-companion-to-sociology-of-religion-isbn-9780631212416","title":"The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e is presented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range of outstanding academics, the volume explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look in future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look at the beginning of the next millennium.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the boundaries between sociology and other closely related disciplines, such as theology and social anthropology.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEdited by one of the best known and most widely respected sociologists of religion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAccessibly presented in three comprehensive parts.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\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  ‘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 \u003c!--end--\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 \u003cb\u003eRichard K. Fenn\u003c\/b\u003e is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Christianity and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, and is one of the most senior and influential practitioners of his discipline currently at work. He is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books.  This \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by one of the best known and most widely respected sociologists of religion, provides essential reading for sociologists and religion scholars. \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e is presented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range of outstanding academics, the volume explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look in future. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors discuss the major social trends which will affect, or be affected by, religion in the near future, encompassing all aspects of the sociology of religion. 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