The Oxford handbook of the sociology of religion /

The Oxford handbook of the sociology of religion / Handbook of the sociology of religion edited by Peter B. Clarke. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009. - xvi, 1046 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - The Oxford handbooks series . - Oxford handbooks. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Towards a more organized understanding of religion within a global framework / Reappraising Durkheim for the study and teaching of religion / uses of Max Weber : legitimation and amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian history, and anthropological practice theory / Max Weber : religion and modernization / Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism : the Kantian theory of secularization / Religion in the works of Habermas, Bourdieu, and Foucault / Rational choice theory : a critique / Religion and gender / Religion and modernity worldwide / Postmodernism and religion / Religion and power / Culture and religion / Methodology in the sociology of religion / Conceptual models in the study of religion / Defining religion : a social science approach / critical view of cognitive science's attempt to explain religion and its development / Science and religion / Atheism / Religion and morality / contemporary convergence of art and religion / social roots and meaning of trance and possession / Religion and the state / Religion and nationalism / Religion and the law : an interactionist view / socio-cultural and socio-religious origins of human rights / Globalization, theocratization, and politicized civil religion / Religious fundamentalism / Migration and the globalization of religion / Religious diversity / Peter B. Clarke -- William E. Paden -- David N. Gellner -- Hans G. Kippenberg -- Bryan S. Turner -- Inger Furseth -- Malcolm Hamilton -- S�ian Hawthorne -- Robert W. Hefner -- Nikolai G. Wenzel -- Meerten ter Borg -- Matt Waggoner -- Ole Preben Riis -- Jeppe Sinding Jensen -- Andr�e Droogers -- K. Helmut Reich -- William Sims Bainbridge -- William Sims Bainbridge -- John Reeder -- Robert Wuthnow -- Ioan M. Lewis -- Phillip E. Hammond and David W. Machacek -- Christophe Jaffrelot -- James T. Richardson -- Enzo Pace -- Roland Robertson -- Anson Shupe -- Caroline Pl�uss -- Gary D. Bouma and Rod Ling -- The A The The The Church-sect-cult : constructing typologies of religious groups / Sects in Islam / Congregations : local, social, and religious / sociology of the clergy / meaning and scope of secularization / Generations and religion / Religion and family / reproduction and transmission of religion / Religion and ritual : a multi-perspectival approach / Religion and the media / Religion and the Internet / New religions as a specialist field of study / Unchurched spirituality / Spiritualities of life / sociology of esotericism / Implicit religion / Religion and ecology / Religion, spirituality, and health : an institutional approach / role of religious institutions in responding to crime and delinquency / Religion and altruism / Religious violence / Girard, religion, violence, and modern martyrdom / Religion and social problems : a new theoretical perspective / Religion and social problems : individual and institutional responses / teacher of religion as ethnographer / Ethnography/religion : explorations in field and classroom / Lorne L. Dawson -- Sami Zubaida -- Nancy T. Ammerman -- Dean R. Hoge -- Karel Dobbelaere -- Wade Clark Roof -- Penny Edgell -- Mathew Guest -- Peter Collins -- Stewart M. Hoover -- Gary R. Bunt -- David G. Bromley -- Eva M. Hamberg -- Paul Heelas -- Kennet Granholm -- Edward Bailey -- Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Wendy Cadge -- Byron R. Johnson -- Keishin Inaba and Kate Loewenthal -- Mark Juergensmeyer -- Michael Kirwan -- Titus Hjelm -- Anne Birgitta Pessi -- Eleanor Nesbitt -- James V. Spickard. The The The The The The

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Religion and sociology.

REF BL 60 / .O94 2009