New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion

BRYAN S. TURNER is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mellon Committee for the Study of Religion, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and Director of the Institute for Religion Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley College (2009-10). His most recent publications are Religion and Modern Society (Cambridge 2011) and The Religious and the Political (Cambridge 2013). With Oscar Salemink, he edited the Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia (2014). He is the founding editor with John O’Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology (Sage) and with Irfan Ahmad the Journal of Religious and Political Practice (Routledge). He received the Max Planck Award in 2015 for research on secularization and modernity: social and religious pluralism, and is a Guest Professor at the University of Potsdam.

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Mapping the Sociology of Religion 1Bryan S. TurnerPart I The Foundations 311 The Sociology of Religion: The Foundations 33Andrew McKinnon2 Durkheim and After: Religion, Culture, and Politics 52William Ramp3 The Functional Theory of Religion 76Victor Lidz4 Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Religion 103Simon ColemanPart II From Secularization to Resacralization 1235 Secularization 125Steve Bruce6 American Exceptionalism? 141John Torpey7 Resacralization 160Grace DaviePart III New Developments 1798 Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion 181David Lehmann9 The Religious Habitus: Embodiment, Religion, and Sociological Theory 201Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling10 Women, Religions, and Feminisms 221Fang-Long ShihPart IV Institutionalization: Old and New Forms 24511 New Research on Megachurches: Non-denominationalism and Sectarianism 247Stephen Ellingson12 The Sociology of Spirituality: Reflections on a Problematic Endeavor 267Matthew Wood13 Arguing against Darwinism: Religion, Science, and Public Morality 286Michael S. Evans and John H. EvansPart V Sociology of Comparative Religions 30914 The Sociology of Early Christianity: From History to Theory, and Back Again 311Joseph M. Bryant15 Judaism: Covenant, Pluralism, and Piety 340Alan Mittleman16 Sociology and Anthropology of Islam: A Critical Debate 364Gabriele Marranci17 Approaches to the Study of Buddhism 388Catherine Newell18 Sociology of Hinduism 407Pratap Kumar Penumala19 Religious Awakening in China under Communist Rule: A Political Economy Approach 431Fenggang Yang20 Native American Religious Traditions: A Sociological Approach 456Dennis F. KelleyPart VI Globalization 47521 Globalization and the Sociology of Religion 477Lionel Obadia22 Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a Global Perspective 498Afe Adogame23 Fundamentalism 519Richard T. Antoun24 Religion, Media, and Globalization 544Jeremy Stolow25 Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodification 563Pattana Kitiarsa26 Women and Piety Movements 584Rachel Rinaldo27 Religion and Nationalism: A Critical Re-examination 606Geneviève ZubrzyckiPart VII The Future of Religion 62728 The Future of Religion 629Andrew Wernick29 Religion in a Post-secular Society 649Bryan S. TurnerIndex 668

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