• 1: Peter Clarke: Introduction:Towards a Global Framework and Organic Understanding of Religion


• I: Theory: Classical, Modern and Postmodern


• 2: William E. Paden: Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion


• 3: David N. Geller: The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian History, and Anthropological Practice Theory


• 4: Hans G. Kippenberg: Max Weber: Religion and Modernization


• 5: Bryan S. Turner: Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism: the Kantian Theory of Secularization


• 6: Inger Furseth: Religion in the Works of Habermas, Bourdieu and Foucault


• 7: Malcolm Hamilton: Rational Choice Theory: A Critique


• 8: Sian Hawthorne: Religion and Gender


• 9: Robert W. Hefner: Religion and Modernity Worldwide


• 10: Nikolai Wenzel: Postmodernism and Religion


• 11: Meerten ter Borg: Religion and Power


• 12: Matt Waggoner: Culture and Religion


• I: Method


• 13: Ole Preben Riis: Methodology in the Sociology of Religion


• 14: Jeppe Sinding Jensen: Conceptual Models in the Study of Religion


• 15: André Droogers: Defining Religion: A Social Science Approach


• 16: K. Helmut Reich: Explaining Religion through Cognitive Science


• III: Religion and related spheres: Morality, Science, Irreligion, Art and Sexuality


• 17: William Sims Bainbridge: Science and Religion


• 18: William Sims Bainbridge: Atheism


• 19: John Reeder: Religion and Morality


• 20: Robert Wuthnow: The Contemporary Convergence of Art and Religion


• 21: I. M. Lewis: The Social Roots and Meaning of Trance and Possession


• IV: Religion and the State, the Nation, the Law


• 22: Phillip E. Hammond and David W. Machacek: Religion and the State


• 23: Christophe Jaffrelot: Religion and Nationalism


• 24: James T. Richardson: Religion and the Law: An Interactionist View


• 25: Enzo Pace: The Socio-cultural and Socio-religious Origins of Human Rights


• V: Globalisation and its Religious Effects


• 26: Roland Robertson: Globalization, Theocratization and Politicized Civil Rights


• 27: Caroline Plüss: Migration and the Globalization of Religion


• 28: Anson Shupe: Religious Fundamentalism


• 29: Gary D. Bouma: Religious Diversity


• VI: Standard or Mainstream Religion


• 30: Karel Dobbelaere: The Meaning and Scope of Secularization


• 31: Dean R. Hoge: The Sociology of the Clergy


• 32: Nancy T. Ammerman: Congregations: Local, Social and Religious


• 33: Lorne L. Dawson: Church-Sect-Cult:Constructing Typologies of Religious Groups


• 34: Sam Zubaida: Sects in Islam


• VII: The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion


• 35: Mathew Guest: The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion


• 36: Wade Clark Roof: Generations and Religion


• 37: Penny Edgell: Religion and Family


• 38: Peter Collins: Religion and Ritual


• 39: Stewart M. Hoover: Religion in the Media


• 40: Gary R. Bunt: Religion and the Internet


• VIII: New Religion, New Spirituality and Implicit Religion


• 41: David G. Bromley: New Religious Movements


• 42: Eva M. Hamberg: Unchurched Spirituality


• 43: Paul Heelas: Spiritualities of Life


• 44: Kennet Granholm: The Sociology of Esotericism


• 45: Edward Bailey: Implicit Religion


• XI: Environmental and Social Issues


• 46: Mary Evelyn Tucker: Religion and Ecology


• 47: Wendy Cadge: Religion, Spirituality and Health: An Institutional Approach


• 48: Titus Hjelm: Religion and Social Problems: A New Theoretical Perspective


• 49: Anne Birgitta Yeung: Religion and Social Problems: Individual and Institutional Responses


• 50: Bryon R. Johnson: The Role of Religious Institutions in Responding to Crime and Delinquency


• 51: Keishin Inaba and Kate Loewenthal: Religion and Altruism


• 52: Mark Juergensmaeyer: Religious Violence


• 53: Michael Kirwan: Girard, Religion, Violence, and Modern Martydom


• X: Teaching the Sociology of Religion


• 54: Eleanor Nesbitt: The Teacher as Religious Ethnographer


• 55: James V. Spickard: Ethnography/ Religion: Explorations in Field and Classroom


• Index