{"product_id":"the-blackwell-companion-to-sociology-of-religion-hardback-9780631212409","title":"The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion (Hardback) 9780631212409","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard K. Fenn (Edited by), RK Fenn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631212409, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 November 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e512 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 4.3 cm, 1.034 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Contributors. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I. CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY: RECYCLING, CONTINUITY, PROGRESS, OR NEW DEPARTURES?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular; the Sacred and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Personal Reflections in the Mirror of Halévy and Weber (David Martin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Salvation, Secularization, and De-moralization (Bryan Wilson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for the Sociology of Religion (Bernice Martin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender-Blindness to Gendered Difference (Linda Woodhead).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams (Donald Capps).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Georg Simmel: American Sociology Chooses the Stone the Builders Refused (Victoria Lee Erickson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Transformations of Society and the Sacred in Durkheim’s Religious Sociology (Donald A. Nielsen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Classics in the Sociology of Religion: An Ambiguous Legacy (Roger O’Toole).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Individualism, the Validation of Faith, and the Social Nature of Religion in Modernity (Daniéle Hervieu-Léger).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Origins of Religion (Richard K. Fenn).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II. CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN THE RELATION OF RELIGION TO SOCIETY.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Commentary: Whose Problem is it? The Question of Prediction versus Projection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Secularization Extended: From Religious \"Myth\" to Cultural Commonplace (Nicholas J. Demerath III).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Social Movements as Free-floating Religious Phenomena (James A. Beckford).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Social Process of Secularization (Steve Bruce).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Patterns of Religion in Western Europe: An Exceptional Case (Grace Davie).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Future of Religious Participation and Belief in Britain and Beyond (Robin Gill).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Religion as Diffusion of Values. \"Diffused Religion\" in the Context of a Dominant Religious Institution: The Italian Case (Roberto Cipriani).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Spirituality and Spiritual Practice (Robert Wuthnow).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. The Renaissance of Community Economic Development Among African-American Churches in the 1990s (Katherine Day).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Hell as a Residual Category: Possibilities Excluded from the Social System (Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte0.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART III. THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION AND RELATED AREAS OF INQUIRY.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Commentary: Looking for the Boundaries of the Field: Social Anthropology, Theology, and Ethnography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Acting Ritually: Evidence from the Social Life of Chinese Rites (Catherine Bell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Moralizing Sermons, Then and Now (Thomas Luckmann).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Health, Morality and Sacrifice: The Sociology of Disasters (Douglas J. Davies).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Contemporary Social Theory as it Applies to the Understanding of Religion in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Peter Beyer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. The Return of Theology: Sociology’s Distant Relative (Kieran Flanagan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Epilogue: Toward a Secular View of the Individual (Richard K. 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