Research Catalog

Title

The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion / edited by James A. Beckford and N.J. Demerath III.

Publication

Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beckford, James A.
• Demerath, N. J. (Nicholas Jay), 1936-

Description

xvii, 746 p.; 26 cm.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of the sociology of religion
• Sociology of religion

Subject

• Religion and sociology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Classical tradition in sociology of religion / Randall Collins -- Assessing modernities : from 'pre-' to 'ultra-' / Kevin J. Christiano -- Secularization and sacralization deconstructed and reconstructed / N. J. Demerath III -- Rational choice and religious economies / Frank J. Lechner -- Globalization and glocalization / Peter Beyer-- Micro qualitative approaches to the sociology of religion : phenomenologies, interviews, narratives, and ethnographies / James V. Spickard -- Surveys of behaviour, beliefs and affiliation : micro-quantitative / David Voas -- History, methodologies, and the study of religion / John R. Hall -- Congregations resurgent / N.J. Demerath III, Arthur E. Farnsley II -- Evangelicalism and fundamentalism : the politics of global popular protestantism / Paul Freston -- From 'cults' to new religious movements : coherence, definition, and conceptual framing in the study of new religious movements / Thomas Robbins, Phillip Charles Lucas -- New age religion and irreligion / William Sims Bainbridge -- Civil religion in America and in global context / Marcela Cristi, Lorne L. Dawson -- Keepers of the tradition : religious professionals and their careers / Paula Nesbitt -- Orders and schisms on the sacred periphery / Patricia Wittberg -- Faith-based initiatives / Arthur E. Farnsley II -- Religion on the internet / Douglas E. Cowan -- Religion and the state, violence and human rights / N.J. Demerath III -- Religion and regulation / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- Religion in rebellion, resistance, and social movements / Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Rhys H. Williams -- Religious affiliations, political preferences and ideological alignments / Laura R. Olson -- Cross-national comparisons of individual religiosity / Pierre Bréchon -- Rethinking the relationship between ethnicity and religion / Peter Kivisto -- Religious socialization among American youth : how faith shapes parents, children, and adolescents / John P. Bartkowski -- Age, generation, and cohort in American religion and spirituality / Michele Dillon -- Religion and identity / Arthur L. Greil, Lynn Davidman -- Gender differences in religious practice and significance / Linda Woodhead -- Embodiment, emotion and religious experience : religion, culture and the charismatic body / Philip A. Mellor -- Religion as a factor in life and death through the life-course / Stephen J. Hunt -- Oligopoly dynamics : official religions in China / Fenggang Yang -- Religious landscape of Central and Eastern Europe after communism / Irena Borowik -- Judaism in Israe l : public religion, neo-traditionalism, messianism and ethno-religious conflict / Stephen Sharot -- State shinto and religion in post-war Japan / Susumu Shimazono -- Mexico : a mirror for the sociology of religion / Roberto J. Blancarte.

Call Number

JFF 08-644

ISBN

• 9781412911955 (hbk.)
• 1412911958 (hbk.)

LCCN

2007921005

OCLC

141385644

Title

The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion / edited by James A. Beckford and N.J. Demerath III.

Imprint

Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher description

Table of contents only

Added Author

Beckford, James A.

Demerath, N. J. (Nicholas Jay), 1936-

Research Call Number

JFF 08-644