Véronique Altglas is lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. Her book, From Yoga to Kabbalah: Religious Exoticism and the Logics of Bricolage, was chosen by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion as the best book in 2017. Matthew Wood (1970-2015) was lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. His work is particularly influential for the study of New Age, spirituality, and the epistemology of the sociology of religion. It includes Possession, Power and the New Age (2007).

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• Table of Contents PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors Introduction: An Epistemology for the Sociology of Religion Protestant Churches and Same-Sex Marriage in France: "Theological" Criteria and Sociological Approaches Deconstructing Archer's (Un)Critical Realism Spirituality and Discipline: Not a Contradiction in Terms Congregational Studies, Worship and Region Behaviour Unmasking the Relations of Power within the Religious Field An Affective (U-)Turn in the Sociology of Religion? Religious Emotions and Native Narratives "Reverse Mission": A Critical Approach for a Problematic Subject "We are Peace-Loving People." Sufism, Orientalist Constructions of Islam and Radicalization Index

Véronique Altglas is lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. Her book, From Yoga to Kabbalah: Religious Exoticism and the Logics of Bricolage, was chosen by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion as the best book in 2017. Matthew Wood (1970-2015) was lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. His work is particularly influential for the study of New Age, spirituality, and the epistemology of the sociology of religion. It includes Possession, Power and the New Age (2007).

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• Table of Contents PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors Introduction: An Epistemology for the Sociology of Religion Protestant Churches and Same-Sex Marriage in France: "Theological" Criteria and Sociological Approaches Deconstructing Archer's (Un)Critical Realism Spirituality and Discipline: Not a Contradiction in Terms Congregational Studies, Worship and Region Behaviour Unmasking the Relations of Power within the Religious Field An Affective (U-)Turn in the Sociology of Religion? Religious Emotions and Native Narratives "Reverse Mission": A Critical Approach for a Problematic Subject "We are Peace-Loving People." Sufism, Orientalist Constructions of Islam and Radicalization Index