The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvPeter Clarke,University of Oxford) Clarke, Peter (Professor Emeritus King's College, University of London. Professor, Faculty of Theology

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The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion draws on the expertise of an international team of scholars providing both an entry point into the sociological study and understanding of religion and an in-depth survey into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world. The role and impact of religion and spirituality on the politics, culture, education and health in the modern world is rigorously discussed and debated. The study of the sociology of religion forges interdisciplinary links to explore aspects of continuity and change in the contemporary interface between society and religion. Using a combination of theoretical, methodological and content-led approaches, the fifty-seven contributors collectively emphasise the complex relationships between religion and aspects of life from scientific research to law, ecology to art, music to cognitive science, crime to institutional health care and more. The developing character of religion, irreligion and atheism and the impact of religious diversity on social cohesion are explored. An overview of current scholarship in the field is provided in each themed chapter with an emphasis on encouraging new thinking and reflection on familiar and emergent themes to stimulate further debate and scholarship. The resulting essay collection provides an invaluable resource for research and teaching in this diverse discipline.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-11-06
Mått176 x 253 x 59 mm
Vikt1 949 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Handbooks
Antal sidor1 064
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199279791

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Peter Clarke is a professorial member of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford where he supervises research and teaches in the social sciences and religion. He has carried out extensive research in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. He is the founding editor and currently the co-editor of The Journal of Contemporary Religion and author and/or editor of some twenty books and over one hundred articles.

I: THEORY: CLASSICAL, MODERN AND POSTMODERN ; I: METHOD ; III: RELIGION AND RELATED SPHERES: MORALITY, SCIENCE, IRRELIGION, ART AND SEXUALITY ; IV: RELIGION AND THE STATE, THE NATION, THE LAW ; V: GLOBALISATION AND ITS RELIGIOUS EFFECTS ; VI: STANDARD OR MAINSTREAM RELIGION ; VII: THE REPRODUCTION AND TRANSMISSION OF RELIGION ; VIII: NEW RELIGION, NEW SPIRITUALITY AND IMPLICIT RELIGION ; XI: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES ; X: TEACHING THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION

This handsome book... is particularly welcome and should find a place in every well-stocked library, both academic and other... I particularly like the mix of experienced and younger scholars who have been brought together in this volume and applaud the successful attempt to escape from a study of religion informed by Western, primarily Christian, notions of religion. A further question follows from this. Seriously confronting the realities of religion in the twenty-first century makes new demands on social science, which itself emerged from a similar (i.e., Western) context. To what extent, then, can these demands be met within the parameters of the sociology of religion as we know this? Peter Clarke's meticulously edited volume not only underlines the question, but indicates a way forward. He is to be warmly congratulated.

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