Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion

Titus Hjelm is Reader in Sociology at University College London, UK. His publications include Is God Back? (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), and Social Constructionisms (2014). He is founding chair of the American Academy of Religion's Sociology of Religion Group.

I've personally been eager for someone to put together a volume of this kind. There’s no question that The Sacred Canopy is a classic that is still influential and deserves this kind of critical appraisal.

• List of ContributorsPreface and Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion, Titus Hjelm (University College London, UK)2 . Vulnerability and Plausibility Structures: Peter L. Berger, Arnold Gehlen and Philosophical Anthropology, Bryan S. Turner (The City University of New York, USA)3. From Canopies to Conversations: The Continuing Significance of “Plausibility Structures”, Nancy Ammerman (Boston University, USA)4. The Sacred Canopy as a Global Construction Project: Incorporating both Emotional and Cognitive Resources, Doyle Paul Johnson (Independent scholar)5. The Sacred Canopy as a Classic: Why Berger’s Conceptual Apparatus Remains Foundational 50 Years Later, David Feltmate (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA)6. Sacred Canopies and Invisible Religions: The Dialectical Construction of Religion in Berger and Luckmann, Hubert Knoblauch (The Technical University of Berlin, Germany) and Silke Steets (Leipzig University, Germany)7. Secularization: From Sacred Canopies to Golf Umbrellas, Steve Bruce (University of Aberdeen, UK)8. Islamic Revivalism and Europe’s Secular ‘Sacred Canopy’: Exploring the Debunking Capacity of Public Religion, Riyaz Timol (Cardiff University, UK)9. Religious American and Secular European Courts, or vice versa? A study of institutional cross-pollination, Effie Fokas (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, Greece)10. Assessing the Influence of The Sacred Canopy: A Missed Opportunity for Social Constructionism?, Titus Hjelm (University College London, UK)NotesBibliographyIndex