Sociology of Religion

David Martin was born and raised in Calgary, where he lives with his wife and children. His poetry has been awarded the CBC Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Vallum Award for Poetry and PRISM international's poetry contest, and published in many journals and magazines across Canada. He is an instructor at The Reading Foundation, one of the organizers for Calgary's Single Onion poetry reading series, and the frontman for an indie-pop group, The Fragments.

• Section I: RELIGION AND PACIFISM, PEACE AND VIOLENCE1. The Denomination2. Basic Categories: Troeltsch and Weber3. The Break with Nature4. Catholic Compromise and Sectarian Rejection5. Can We Blame Religion or Human Nature?6. Recapitulations and MutationsSection II: RELIGION AND POLITICS7. The Religious and the Political8. Christianity, Violence and Democracy9. Protestantism and Democracy10. Why and How the Two Revolutions Were ForbiddenSection III: SECULARISATION11. Toward Eliminating the Concept of Secularisation12. Secularisation and the Future of Christianity13. What I Really Said about Secularisation14. Does the Advance of Science Mean Secularisation?15. Has Secularisation Gone into Reverse?Section IV: PENTECOSTALISM16. Anglo and Latin: Rival Civilizations, Alternative Patterns17. The Methodist Model18. The Argument Summarized and Extended19. PentecostalismSection V: BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES20. Historical Background: Dissenters and Abstainers21. Believing without Belonging22. The United States in Central European Perspective23. Another Strange DeathSection VI: THEOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY24. The Sociological Mode and the Theological Vocabulary25. The Paradigm and the Double Structure26. Modes of Change27. What Is Christian Language?28. Does the Sociological Viewpoint Bear on the Theistic Vision?29. Changing Your Holy GroundSection VII: FAITH, CULTURE AND EDUCATION30. Order and Rule31. Parts and Wholes, Objectives and Objectivity32. The Christian, the Political and the Academic

This is a thorough representation of David Martin's body of work as a whole. The book brings the reader back time and time again to Martin's main interests: secularization, politics and religion, and religious language alongside sociological methods, to name the most important. -- Tom Riser -- Nova Religio