The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion (Blackwell Companions to Sociology)

711 Pages·2010·3.71 MB·English

by  Bryan S. Turner

the new blackwell companion to
the sociology of religion
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edited by
bryan s. turner
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The new Blackwell companion to the sociology of religion / edited by Bryan S. Turner.
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ISBN 978-1-4051-8852-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Religion and sociology. I. Turner, Bryan S.
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Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction: Mapping the Sociology of Religion 1
Bryan S. Turner
PART I THE FOUNDATIONS 31
1 The Sociology of Religion: The Foundations 33
Andrew McKinnon
2 Durkheim and After: Religion, Culture, and Politics 52
William Ramp
3 The Functional Theory of Religion 76
Victor Lidz
4 Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Religion 103
Simon Coleman
PART II FROM SECULARIZATION TO RESACRALIZATION 123
5 Secularization 125
Steve Bruce
6 American Exceptionalism? 141
John Torpey
7 Resacralization 160
Grace Davie
PART III NEW DEVELOPMENTS 179
8 Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion 181
David Lehmann
vi contents
9 The Religious Habitus: Embodiment, Religion, and
Sociological Theory 201
Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling
10 Women, Religions, and Feminisms 221
Fang-Long Shih
PART IV INSTITUTIONALIZATION: OLD AND NEW FORMS 245
11 New Research on Megachurches: Non-denominationalism
and Sectarianism 247
Stephen Ellingson
12 The Sociology of Spirituality: Refl ections on a Problematic
Endeavor 267
Matthew Wood
13 Arguing against Darwinism: Religion, Science, and Public
Morality 286
Michael S. Evans and John H. Evans
PART V SOCIOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS 309
14 The Sociology of Early Christianity: From History
to Theory, and Back Again 311
Joseph M. Bryant
15 Judaism: Covenant, Pluralism, and Piety 340
Alan Mittleman
16 Sociology and Anthropology of Islam: A Critical Debate 364
Gabriele Marranci
17 Approaches to the Study of Buddhism 388
Catherine Newell
18 Sociology of Hinduism 407
Pratap Kumar Penumala
19 Religious Awakening in China under Communist
Rule: A Political Economy Approach 431
Fenggang Yang
20 Native American Religious Traditions: A Sociological
Approach 456
Dennis F. Kelley
PART VI GLOBALIZATION 475
21 Globalization and the Sociology of Religion 477
Lionel Obadia
contents vii
22 Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a
Global Perspective 498
Afe Adogame
23 Fundamentalism 519
Richard T. Antoun
24 Religion, Media, and Globalization 544
Jeremy Stolow
25 Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodifi cation 563
Pattana Kitiarsa
26 Women and Piety Movements 584
Rachel Rinaldo
27 Religion and Nationalism: A Critical Re-examination 606
Geneviève Zubrzycki
PART VII THE FUTURE OF RELIGION 627
28 The Future of Religion 629
Andrew Wernick
29 Religion in a Post-secular Society 649
Bryan S. Turner
Index 668
Notes on Contributors
Afe Adogame holds a PhD in History of Religions from Bayreuth University,
Germany. He now teaches Religious Studies/World Christianity at the University of
Edinburgh, UK. His special fi elds of teaching/research include: Religion and the
African Diaspora, African Religions, Sociology of Religion, and Method and Theory
in the Study of Religion. Dr Adogame has ethnographical expertise in African
Christian communities in continental Europe (especially in Germany and the UK)
and in the USA. He is the author of Celestial Church of Christ: The Politics of
Cultural identity in a West African Prophetic - charismatic Movement (1999); (co -
edited) European Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa (2004); Religion in
the Context of African Migration (2005); C hristianity in Africa and the African
Diaspora: The Appropriation of a Scattered Heritage (2008); and Unpacking the
New: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Syncretization in African and Beyond (2008).
He is on the Editorial Board of several scientifi c journals including the Journal of
Religion in Africa; A frican Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global
World ; I nternational Studies in Religion and Society ; and is Associate Editor of the
Studies in World Christianity .
Richard T. Antoun is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the State University
of New York in Binghamton. A Fulbright Scholar and past president of the Middle
East Studies Association, he has taught at Indiana University; Manchester Univer-
sity, England; and as visiting professor at the American University if Beirut, Cairo
University, and the University of Chicago. On the basis of extensive fi eldwork in
Jordan and Iran, he has written four books: Arab Village: A Social Structural Study
of a Transjordanian Peasant Community (1972); L ow - Key Politics: Local- level
Leadership and Change in the Middle East (1979); M uslim Preacher in the Modern
World: A Jordanian Case Study in Comparative Perspective (1989); and Document-
ing Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia
and North America (2005). A fi fth book is comparative and cross - cultural: Under-
standing Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic and Jewish Movements (2001). This
book has just been reprinted in a second edition, which features a new chapter on