The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion /
edited by Richard K. Fenn.
- xx, 485 p. ; 25 cm.
- Blackwell companions to religion ; 2. .
Personal reflections in the mirror of Halevy and Weber / David Martin --Salvation, secularization, and de-moralization / Bryan Wilson --The Pentecostal gender paradox: a cautionary tale for the sociology of religion / Bernice Martin --Feminism and the sociology of religion: from gender-blindness to gendered difference / Linda Woodhead --Melancholia, utopia, and the psychoanalysis of dreams / Donald Capps --Georg Simmel: American sociology chooses the stone the builders refused / Victoria Lee Erickson --Transformations of society and the sacred in Durkheim's religious sociology / Donald A. Nielsen --Classics in the sociology of religion: an ambiguous legacy / Roger O'Toole --Individualism, the validation of faith, and the social nature of religion in modernity / Danißele Hervieu-Leger --The origins of religion / Richard K. Fenn --Secularization extended: from religious "myth" to cultural commonplace / Nicholas J. Demerath III --Social movements as free-floating religious phenomena / James A. Beckford --The social process of secularization / Steve Bruce --Patterns of religion in Western Europe: an exceptional case / Grace Davie --The future of religious participation and belief in Britain and beyond / Robin Gill --Religion as diffusion of values. "Diffused Religion" in the context of a dominant religious institution: the Italian case / Roberto Cipriani --Spirituality and spiritual practice / Robert Wuthnow --The Renaissance of community economic development among African-American churches in the 1990s / Katherine Day --Hell as a residual category: possibilities excluded from the social system / Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte. 0 Acting ritually: evidence from the social life of Chinese rites / Catherine Bell --Moralizing servons, then and now --Thomas Luckmann --Health, morality and sacrifice: the sociology of disasters / Douglas J. Davies --Contemporary social theory as it applies to the understanding of religion in cross-cultural perspective / Peter Beyer --The return of theology: sociology's distant relative / Kieran Flanagan --Epilogue: toward a secular view of the individual / Richard K. Fenn.