TY - BOOK AU - Clarke,Peter B. TI - The Oxford handbook of the sociology of religion T2 - The Oxford handbooks series SN - 9780199279791 (hbk.) AV - REF BL 60 .O94 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Religion and sociology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Towards a more organized understanding of religion within a global framework; Peter B. Clarke --; Reappraising Durkheim for the study and teaching of religion; William E. Paden --; The; uses of Max Weber : legitimation and amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian history, and anthropological practice theory; David N. Gellner --; Max Weber : religion and modernization; Hans G. Kippenberg --; Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism : the Kantian theory of secularization; Bryan S. Turner --; Religion in the works of Habermas, Bourdieu, and Foucault; Inger Furseth --; Rational choice theory : a critique; Malcolm Hamilton --; Religion and gender; S�ian Hawthorne --; Religion and modernity worldwide; Robert W. Hefner --; Postmodernism and religion; Nikolai G. Wenzel --; Religion and power; Meerten ter Borg --; Culture and religion; Matt Waggoner --; Methodology in the sociology of religion; Ole Preben Riis --; Conceptual models in the study of religion; Jeppe Sinding Jensen --; Defining religion : a social science approach; Andr�e Droogers --; A; critical view of cognitive science's attempt to explain religion and its development; K. Helmut Reich --; Science and religion; William Sims Bainbridge --; Atheism; William Sims Bainbridge --; Religion and morality; John Reeder --; The; contemporary convergence of art and religion; Robert Wuthnow --; The; social roots and meaning of trance and possession; Ioan M. Lewis --; Religion and the state; Phillip E. Hammond and David W. Machacek --; Religion and nationalism; Christophe Jaffrelot --; Religion and the law : an interactionist view; James T. Richardson --; The; socio-cultural and socio-religious origins of human rights; Enzo Pace --; Globalization, theocratization, and politicized civil religion; Roland Robertson --; Religious fundamentalism; Anson Shupe --; Migration and the globalization of religion; Caroline Pl�uss --; Religious diversity; Gary D. Bouma and Rod Ling --; Church-sect-cult : constructing typologies of religious groups; Lorne L. Dawson --; Sects in Islam; Sami Zubaida --; Congregations : local, social, and religious; Nancy T. Ammerman --; The; sociology of the clergy; Dean R. Hoge --; The; meaning and scope of secularization; Karel Dobbelaere --; Generations and religion; Wade Clark Roof --; Religion and family; Penny Edgell --; The; reproduction and transmission of religion; Mathew Guest --; Religion and ritual : a multi-perspectival approach; Peter Collins --; Religion and the media; Stewart M. Hoover --; Religion and the Internet; Gary R. Bunt --; New religions as a specialist field of study; David G. Bromley --; Unchurched spirituality; Eva M. Hamberg --; Spiritualities of life; Paul Heelas --; The; sociology of esotericism; Kennet Granholm --; Implicit religion; Edward Bailey --; Religion and ecology; Mary Evelyn Tucker --; Religion, spirituality, and health : an institutional approach; Wendy Cadge --; The; role of religious institutions in responding to crime and delinquency; Byron R. Johnson --; Religion and altruism; Keishin Inaba and Kate Loewenthal --; Religious violence; Mark Juergensmeyer --; Girard, religion, violence, and modern martyrdom; Michael Kirwan --; Religion and social problems : a new theoretical perspective; Titus Hjelm --; Religion and social problems : individual and institutional responses; Anne Birgitta Pessi --; The; teacher of religion as ethnographer; Eleanor Nesbitt --; Ethnography/religion : explorations in field and classroom; James V. Spickard ER -