The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion 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.
- Explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look at the beginning of the next millennium.
- Traces the boundaries between sociology and other closely related disciplines, such as theology and social anthropology.
- Edited by one of the best known and most widely respected sociologists of religion
- Accessibly presented in three comprehensive parts.
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 and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument.
1. Personal Reflections in the Mirror of Halévy and Weber (David Martin).
2. Salvation, Secularization, and De-moralization (Bryan Wilson).
3. The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for the Sociology of Religion (Bernice Martin).
4. Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender-Blindness to Gendered Difference (Linda Woodhead).
5. Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams (Donald Capps).
6. Georg Simmel: American Sociology Chooses the Stone the Builders Refused (Victoria Lee Erickson).
7. Transformations of Society and the Sacred in Durkheim’s Religious Sociology (Donald A. Nielsen).
8. Classics in the Sociology of Religion: AnlS+
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