"The handbook achieves an admirable synthesis of important efforts and will be particularly helpful as a means to orient beginning students in the sociology of religion."

• PART ONE: THEORIES AND CONCEPTSThe Classical Tradition in Sociology of Religion - Randall CollinsAssessing Modernities - Kevin J. ChristianoFrom ′Pre-′ to ′Post-′ to ′Ultra-′Secularisation and Sacralisation Deconstructed and Reconstructed - N. J. Demerath IIIRational Choice and Religious Economies - Frank J. LechnerGlobalization and Localization - Peter BeyerPART TWO: METHODS OF STUDYING RELIGIONMicro Qualitative Approaches to the Sociology of Religion - James V. SpickardPhenomenologies, Interviews, Narratives, and EthnographiesSurveys of Behaviour, Beliefs and Affiliation - David VoasMicro-quantitativeHistory, Methodologies and the Study of Religion - John R. HallPART THREE: SOCIAL FORMS AND EXPERIENCES OF RELIGIONCongregations Resurgent - N. J. Demerath III & Arthur E Farnsley IIEvangelicalism and Fundamentalism - Paul FrestonThe Politics of Global Popular ProtestantismFrom ′Cults′ to New Religious Movements - Thomas Robbins & Phillip Charles LucasCoherence, Definition and Conceptual Framing in the Study of New Religious MovementsNew Age Religion and Irreligion - William Sims BainbridgeCivil Religion in America and in Global Context - Marcela Cristi & Lorne L. DawsonPART FOUR: ISSUES OF POWER AND CONTROL IN RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONSKeepers of the Tradition - Paula NesbittReligiousProfessionals and their CareersOrders and Schisms on the Sacred Periphery - Patricia Wittberg Faith-based Initiatives - Arthur E. Farnsley IIReligion on the Internet - Douglas E. CowanPART FIVE: RELIGION AND POLITICSReligion and the State - N. J. Demerath IIIViolence and Human RightsReligion and Regulation - J A Beckford & J T RichardsonReligion in Rebellion, Resistance and Social Movements - S E Nepstad and R H WilliamsReligious Affiliations, Political Preferences, and Ideological Alignments - Laura R. OlsonPART SIX: INDIVIDUAL RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOUR IN SOCIAL CONTEXTCross-national Comparisons of Individual Religiosity - Pierre BréchonRethinking the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Religion - Peter KivistoReligious Socialization among American Youth - John P. BartkowskiHow Faith Shapes Parents, Children, and AdolescentsAge, Generation and Cohort in American Religion and Spirituality - Michele DillonPART SEVEN: RELIGION, SELF-IDENTITY AND THE LIFE-COURSEReligion and Identity - Arthur L. Greil & Lynn DavidmanGender Differences in Religious Practice and Significance - Linda WoodheadEmbodiment, Emotion and Religious Experience - Phillip A. MellorReligion, Culture and the Charismatic BodyReligion as a Factor in Life and Death Through the Life-course - Stephen J. HuntPART EIGHT: CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLDOligopoly Dynamics - Fenggang YangOfficial Religions in ChinaThe Religious Landscape of Central and Eastern Europe After Communism - Irena BorowikJudaism in Israel - Stephen SharotPublic Religion, Neo-traditionalism, Messianism and Ethno-Religious ConflictState Shinto and Religion in Post-war Japan - Susumu ShimazonoMexico - Roberto J. BlancarteA Mirror For the Sociology of Religion

"The handbook achieves an admirable synthesis of important efforts and will be particularly helpful as a means to orient beginning students in the sociology of religion."

• PART ONE: THEORIES AND CONCEPTSThe Classical Tradition in Sociology of Religion - Randall CollinsAssessing Modernities - Kevin J. ChristianoFrom ′Pre-′ to ′Post-′ to ′Ultra-′Secularisation and Sacralisation Deconstructed and Reconstructed - N. J. Demerath IIIRational Choice and Religious Economies - Frank J. LechnerGlobalization and Localization - Peter BeyerPART TWO: METHODS OF STUDYING RELIGIONMicro Qualitative Approaches to the Sociology of Religion - James V. SpickardPhenomenologies, Interviews, Narratives, and EthnographiesSurveys of Behaviour, Beliefs and Affiliation - David VoasMicro-quantitativeHistory, Methodologies and the Study of Religion - John R. HallPART THREE: SOCIAL FORMS AND EXPERIENCES OF RELIGIONCongregations Resurgent - N. J. Demerath III & Arthur E Farnsley IIEvangelicalism and Fundamentalism - Paul FrestonThe Politics of Global Popular ProtestantismFrom ′Cults′ to New Religious Movements - Thomas Robbins & Phillip Charles LucasCoherence, Definition and Conceptual Framing in the Study of New Religious MovementsNew Age Religion and Irreligion - William Sims BainbridgeCivil Religion in America and in Global Context - Marcela Cristi & Lorne L. DawsonPART FOUR: ISSUES OF POWER AND CONTROL IN RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONSKeepers of the Tradition - Paula NesbittReligiousProfessionals and their CareersOrders and Schisms on the Sacred Periphery - Patricia Wittberg Faith-based Initiatives - Arthur E. Farnsley IIReligion on the Internet - Douglas E. CowanPART FIVE: RELIGION AND POLITICSReligion and the State - N. J. Demerath IIIViolence and Human RightsReligion and Regulation - J A Beckford & J T RichardsonReligion in Rebellion, Resistance and Social Movements - S E Nepstad and R H WilliamsReligious Affiliations, Political Preferences, and Ideological Alignments - Laura R. OlsonPART SIX: INDIVIDUAL RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOUR IN SOCIAL CONTEXTCross-national Comparisons of Individual Religiosity - Pierre BréchonRethinking the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Religion - Peter KivistoReligious Socialization among American Youth - John P. BartkowskiHow Faith Shapes Parents, Children, and AdolescentsAge, Generation and Cohort in American Religion and Spirituality - Michele DillonPART SEVEN: RELIGION, SELF-IDENTITY AND THE LIFE-COURSEReligion and Identity - Arthur L. Greil & Lynn DavidmanGender Differences in Religious Practice and Significance - Linda WoodheadEmbodiment, Emotion and Religious Experience - Phillip A. MellorReligion, Culture and the Charismatic BodyReligion as a Factor in Life and Death Through the Life-course - Stephen J. HuntPART EIGHT: CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLDOligopoly Dynamics - Fenggang YangOfficial Religions in ChinaThe Religious Landscape of Central and Eastern Europe After Communism - Irena BorowikJudaism in Israel - Stephen SharotPublic Religion, Neo-traditionalism, Messianism and Ethno-Religious ConflictState Shinto and Religion in Post-war Japan - Susumu ShimazonoMexico - Roberto J. BlancarteA Mirror For the Sociology of Religion

"The handbook achieves an admirable synthesis of important efforts and will be particularly helpful as a means to orient beginning students in the sociology of religion."

• PART ONE: THEORIES AND CONCEPTSThe Classical Tradition in Sociology of Religion - Randall CollinsAssessing Modernities - Kevin J. ChristianoFrom ′Pre-′ to ′Post-′ to ′Ultra-′Secularisation and Sacralisation Deconstructed and Reconstructed - N. J. Demerath IIIRational Choice and Religious Economies - Frank J. LechnerGlobalization and Localization - Peter BeyerPART TWO: METHODS OF STUDYING RELIGIONMicro Qualitative Approaches to the Sociology of Religion - James V. SpickardPhenomenologies, Interviews, Narratives, and EthnographiesSurveys of Behaviour, Beliefs and Affiliation - David VoasMicro-quantitativeHistory, Methodologies and the Study of Religion - John R. HallPART THREE: SOCIAL FORMS AND EXPERIENCES OF RELIGIONCongregations Resurgent - N. J. Demerath III & Arthur E Farnsley IIEvangelicalism and Fundamentalism - Paul FrestonThe Politics of Global Popular ProtestantismFrom ′Cults′ to New Religious Movements - Thomas Robbins & Phillip Charles LucasCoherence, Definition and Conceptual Framing in the Study of New Religious MovementsNew Age Religion and Irreligion - William Sims BainbridgeCivil Religion in America and in Global Context - Marcela Cristi & Lorne L. DawsonPART FOUR: ISSUES OF POWER AND CONTROL IN RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONSKeepers of the Tradition - Paula NesbittReligiousProfessionals and their CareersOrders and Schisms on the Sacred Periphery - Patricia Wittberg Faith-based Initiatives - Arthur E. Farnsley IIReligion on the Internet - Douglas E. CowanPART FIVE: RELIGION AND POLITICSReligion and the State - N. J. Demerath IIIViolence and Human RightsReligion and Regulation - J A Beckford & J T RichardsonReligion in Rebellion, Resistance and Social Movements - S E Nepstad and R H WilliamsReligious Affiliations, Political Preferences, and Ideological Alignments - Laura R. OlsonPART SIX: INDIVIDUAL RELIGIOUS BEHAVIOUR IN SOCIAL CONTEXTCross-national Comparisons of Individual Religiosity - Pierre BréchonRethinking the Relationship Between Ethnicity and Religion - Peter KivistoReligious Socialization among American Youth - John P. BartkowskiHow Faith Shapes Parents, Children, and AdolescentsAge, Generation and Cohort in American Religion and Spirituality - Michele DillonPART SEVEN: RELIGION, SELF-IDENTITY AND THE LIFE-COURSEReligion and Identity - Arthur L. Greil & Lynn DavidmanGender Differences in Religious Practice and Significance - Linda WoodheadEmbodiment, Emotion and Religious Experience - Phillip A. MellorReligion, Culture and the Charismatic BodyReligion as a Factor in Life and Death Through the Life-course - Stephen J. HuntPART EIGHT: CASE STUDIES FROM AROUND THE WORLDOligopoly Dynamics - Fenggang YangOfficial Religions in ChinaThe Religious Landscape of Central and Eastern Europe After Communism - Irena BorowikJudaism in Israel - Stephen SharotPublic Religion, Neo-traditionalism, Messianism and Ethno-Religious ConflictState Shinto and Religion in Post-war Japan - Susumu ShimazonoMexico - Roberto J. BlancarteA Mirror For the Sociology of Religion