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HANDBOOK OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION Religionisacriticalconstructforunderstandingcontemporarysociallife.Itil- luminatestheeverydayexperiencesandpracticesofmanyindividuals;isasig- nificantcomponentofdiverseinstitutionalprocessesincludingpolitics,gender relations,andsocioeconomicinequality;andplaysavitalroleinpublicculture andsocialchange.Thishandbookshowcasescurrentresearchandthinkingin thesociologyofreligion.Thecontributors,allactivewritersandresearchersin thearea,provideoriginalchaptersfocusingonselectaspectsoftheirownen- gagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know moreaboutthesociologyofreligion,thishandbookalsoprovidesaresourcefor sociologistsingeneralbyintegratingbroaderquestionsofsociology(e.g.,de- mography,ethnicity,lifecourse,inequality,politicalsociology)intotheanalysis ofreligion.Broadlyinclusiveoftraditionalresearchtopics(modernity,secular- ization, politics) as well as newer interests (feminism, spirituality, faith-based communityaction),thishandbookillustratesthevalidityofdiversetheoretical perspectivesandresearchdesignstounderstandingthemultilayerednatureof religionasasociologicalphenomenon. Michele Dillon is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire.ShechairedtheAmericanSociologicalAssociation’sSectiononReli- gion,2002–3,andisbookrevieweditorfortheJournalfortheScientificStudyof Religion.Inadditiontonumerousjournalarticles,DillonistheauthorofCatholic Identity:BalancingReason,Faith,andPower(Cambridge,1999)andDebating Divorce:MoralConflictinIreland(1993).Sheiscurrentlywritingonthelifecourse patternsandimplicationsofreligiousnessandspirituality. Handbook of the Sociology of Religion Edited by Michele Dillon UniversityofNewHampshire cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521806244 © Cambridge University Press 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2003 isbn-13 6 isbn-13 978-0-511-06375-6 eBook (NetLibrary) isbn-10 x isbn-10 0-511-06375-X eBook (NetLibrary) isbn-13 4 isbn-13 978-0-521-80624-4 hardback isbn-10 0 isbn-10 0-521-80624-0 hardback iissbbnn--1133 978-0-521-00078-99 paperback isbn-10 5 isbn-10 0-521-00078-5 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents ListofContributors page ix Acknowledgment xiii PartOne. ReligionasaFieldofSociologicalKnowledge 1 TheSociologyofReligioninLateModernity 3 MicheleDillon 2 StudyingReligion,MakingitSociological 16 RobertWuthnow 3 TheRitualRootsofSocietyandCulture 31 RobertN.Bellah 4 SocialFormsofReligionandReligionsinContemporaryGlobalSociety 45 PeterBeyer 5 TheEvolutionoftheSociologyofReligion:ThemeandVariations 61 GraceDavie PartTwo. ReligionandSocialChange 6 DemographicMethodsfortheSociologyofReligion 79 MichaelHout 7 ChurchAttendanceintheUnitedStates 85 MarkChavesandLauraStephens 8 TheDynamicsofReligiousEconomies 96 RogerFinkeandRodneyStark 9 HistoricizingtheSecularizationDebate:AnAgendaforResearch 110 PhilipS.Gorski 10 EscapingtheProcusteanBed:ACriticalAnalysisoftheStudyofReligious Organizations,1930–2001 123 PatriciaM.Y.Chang 11 ReligionandSpirituality:TowardanIntegratedAnalysis 137 WadeClarkRoof v vi Contents PartThree. ReligionandtheLifeCourse 12 ReligiousSocialization:SourcesofInfluenceandInfluencesofAgency 151 DarrenSherkat 13 InRhetoricandPractice:Definingthe“GoodFamily”inLocal Congregations 164 PennyEdgell 14 ReligiousnessandSpirituality:TrajectoriesandVitalInvolvementinLate Adulthood 179 MicheleDillonandPaulWink 15 ReligionandHealth:DepressiveSymptomsandMortalityasCaseStudies 190 MichaelMcCulloughandTimothySmith PartFour. ReligionandSocialIdentity 16 ReligiousIdentitiesandReligiousInstitutions 207 NancyT.Ammerman 17 ReligionandtheNewImmigrants 225 HelenRoseEbaugh 18 AJourneyofthe“StraightWay”orthe“RoundaboutPath”:Jewish IdentityintheUnitedStatesandIsrael 240 ArnoldDashefsky,BernardLazerwitz,andEphraimTabory 19 BeyondtheSynagogueWalls 261 LynnDavidman 20 Dis/location:EngagingFeministInquiryintheSociologyofReligion 276 MaryJoNeitz PartFive. Religion,PoliticalBehavior,andPublicCulture 21 ReligionandPoliticalBehavior 297 JeffManzaandNathanWright 22 ReligiousSocialMovementsinthePublicSphere:Organization, Ideology,andActivism 315 RhysH.Williams 23 MappingtheMoralOrder:DepictingtheTerrainofReligiousConflict andChange 331 FredKniss 24 CivilSocietyandCivilReligionasMutuallyDependent 348 N.J.DemerathIII 25 ReligionandViolence:SocialProcessesinComparativePerspective 359 JohnR.Hall PartSix. ReligionandSocioeconomicInequality 26 Religion,Faith-BasedCommunityOrganizing,andtheStruggleforJustice 385 RichardWood 27 LatinaEmpowerment,BorderRealities,andFaith-BasedOrganizations 400 MilagrosPenã Contents vii 28 “Worldly”or“OtherWorldly”?:ActivisminanUrbanReligiousDistrict 412 OmarMcRoberts References 423 Index 471