Fenn The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99856-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion

The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion ispresented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range ofoutstanding academics, the volume explores the current status ofthe sociology of religion, and how it might look in future.
* * Explores the current status of the sociology of religion, andhow it might look at the beginning of the next millennium.
* Traces the boundaries between sociology and other closelyrelated disciplines, such as theology and socialanthropology.
* Edited by one of the best known and most widely respectedsociologists of religion
* Accessibly presented in three comprehensive parts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fenn, Richard K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
PART I. CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY: RECYCLING,CONTINUITY, PROGRESS, OR NEW DEPARTURES?.
Editorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular; the Sacred andthe Profane: The Scope of the Argument.
1. Personal Reflections in the Mirror of Halévy and Weber(David Martin).
2. Salvation, Secularization, and De-moralization (BryanWilson).
3. The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for theSociology of Religion (Bernice Martin).
4. Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender-Blindnessto Gendered Difference (Linda Woodhead).
5. Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams (DonaldCapps).
6. Georg Simmel: American Sociology Chooses the Stone theBuilders Refused (Victoria Lee Erickson).
7. Transformations of Society and the Sacred in Durkheim'sReligious Sociology (Donald A. Nielsen).
8. Classics in the Sociology of Religion: An Ambiguous Legacy(Roger O'Toole).
9. Individualism, the Validation of Faith, and the Social Natureof Religion in Modernity (Daniéle Hervieu-Léger).
10. The Origins of Religion (Richard K. Fenn).
PART II. CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN THE RELATION OF RELIGION TOSOCIETY.
Editorial Commentary: Whose Problem is it? The Question ofPrediction versus Projection.
11. Secularization Extended: From Religious "Myth" to CulturalCommonplace (Nicholas J. Demerath III).
12. Social Movements as Free-floating Religious Phenomena (JamesA. Beckford).
13. The Social Process of Secularization (Steve Bruce).
14. Patterns of Religion in Western Europe: An Exceptional Case(Grace Davie).
15. The Future of Religious Participation and Belief in Britainand Beyond (Robin Gill).
16. Religion as Diffusion of Values. "Diffused Religion" in theContext of a Dominant Religious Institution: The Italian Case(Roberto Cipriani).
17. Spirituality and Spiritual Practice (Robert Wuthnow).
18. The Renaissance of Community Economic Development AmongAfrican-American Churches in the 1990s (Katherine Day).
19. Hell as a Residual Category: Possibilities Excluded from theSocial System (Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte0.
PART III. THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION AND RELATED AREAS OFINQUIRY.
Editorial Commentary: Looking for the Boundaries of the Field:Social Anthropology, Theology, and Ethnography.
20. Acting Ritually: Evidence from the Social Life of ChineseRites (Catherine Bell).
21. Moralizing Sermons, Then and Now (Thomas Luckmann).
22. Health, Morality and Sacrifice: The Sociology of Disasters(Douglas J. Davies).
23. Contemporary Social Theory as it Applies to theUnderstanding of Religion in Cross-Cultural Perspective (PeterBeyer).
24. The Return of Theology: Sociology's Distant Relative(Kieran Flanagan).
25. Epilogue: Toward a Secular View of the Individual (RichardK. Fenn).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard K. Fenn 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.