The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

PART ONE: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS/The Classical Tradition in Sociology of Religion/Assessing Modernities/From 'Pre-' to 'Post-' to 'Ultra-'/Secularisation and Sacralisation Deconstructed and Reconstructed/Rational Choice and Religious Economies/Globalization and Localization/PART TWO: METHODS OF STUDYING RELIGION/Micro Qualitative Approaches to the Sociology of Religion/Phenomenologies Interviews Narratives and Ethnographies/Surveys of Behaviour Beliefs and Affiliation/Micro-quantitative/History Methodologies and the Study of Religion/PART THREE: SOCIAL FORMS AND EXPERIENCES OF RELIGION/Congregations Resurgent/Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism/The Politics of Global Popular Protestantism/From 'Cults' to New Religious Movements/Coherence Definition and Conceptual Framing in the Study of New Religious Movements/New Age Religion and Irreligion/Civil Religion in America and in Global Context/PART FOUR: ISSUES OF POWER AND CONTROL IN RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS/Keepers of the Tradition/Religious Professionals and their Careers/Orders and Schisms on the Sacred Periphery/Faith-based Initiatives/Religion on the Internet/PART FIVE: RELIGION AND POLITICS/Religion and the State/Violence and Human Rights/Religion and Regulation/Religion in Rebellion Resistance and Social Movements/Religious Affiliations Political Preferences and Ideological Alignments/PART SIX: INDIVIDUAL RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOUR IN SOCIAL CONTEXT/Cross-national Comparisons of Individual Religiosity/Rethinking the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Religion /Religious Socialization among American Youth/How Faith Shapes Parents Children and Adolescents/Age Generation and Cohort in American Religion and Spirituality/PART SEVEN: RELIGION SELF-IDENTITY AND THE LIFE-COURSE/Religion and Identity/Gender Differences in Religious Practice and Significance/Embodiment Emotion and Religious Experience/Religion Culture and the Charismatic Body/Religion as a Factor in Life and Death Through the Life-course/PART EIGHT: CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD/Oligopoly Dynamics/Official Religions in China/The Religious Landscape of Central and Eastern Europe After Communism/Judaism in Israel/Public Religion Neo-traditionalism Messianism and Ethno-Religious Conflict/State Shinto and Religion in Post-war Japan/Mexico/A Mirror For the Sociology of Religion