Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

ISBN-13: 9780199588961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 1064 str.

Peter Clarke

Opis

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.

Recenzje

This handsome book... is particularly welcome and should find a place in every well-stocked library, both academic and other... I particulary like the mix of experienced and younger scholoars 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. Grace Davie, Theology

Spis treści

From the contents:

1: Peter Clarke: Introduction:Towards a Global Framework and Organic Understanding of Religion;
I: Theory: Classical, Modern and Postmodern;
2: William E. Paden: Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion;
3: David N. Geller: The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian History, and Anthropological Practice Theory;
4: Hans G. Kippenberg: Max Weber: Religion and Modernization;
5: Bryan S. Turner: Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism: the Kantian Theory of Secularization;
6: Inger Furseth: Religion in the Works of Habermas, Bourdieu and Foucault;
7: Malcolm Hamilton: Rational Choice Theory: A Critique;
8: Sian Hawthorne: Religion and Gender;
9: Robert W. Hefner: Religion and Modernity Worldwide;
10: Nikolai Wenzel: Postmodernism and Religion;
11: Meerten ter Borg: Religion and Power;
12: Matt Waggoner: Culture and Religion;
I: Method;
13: Ole Preben Riis: Methodology in the Sociology of Religion;
14: Jeppe Sinding Jensen: Conceptual Models in the Study of Religion;
15: André Droogers: Defining Religion: A Social Science Approach;
16: K. Helmut Reich: Explaining Religion through Cognitive Science;
III: Religion and related spheres: Morality, Science, Irreligion, Art and Sexuality;
17: William Sims Bainbridge: Science and Religion;
18: William Sims Bainbridge: Atheism;
19: John Reeder: Religion and Morality;
20: Robert Wuthnow: The Contemporary Convergence of Art and Religion;
21: I. M. Lewis: The Social Roots and Meaning of Trance and Possession;
IV: Religion and the State, the Nation, the Law;
22: Phillip E. Hammond and David W. Machacek: Religion and the State;
23: Christophe Jaffrelot: Religion and Nationalism;
24: James T. Richardson: Religion and the Law: An Interactionist View;
25: Enzo Pace: The Socio-cultural and Socio-religious Origins of Human Rights;
V: Globalisation and its Religious Effects;
26: Roland Robertson: Globalization, Theocratization and Politicized Civil Rights;
27: Caroline Plüss: Migration and the Globalization of Religion;
28: Anson Shupe: Religious Fundamentalism;
29: Gary D. Bouma: Religious Diversity;
VI: Standard or Mainstream Religion;
30: Karel Dobbelaere: The Meaning and Scope of Secularization;
31: Dean R. Hoge: The Sociology of the Clergy;
32: Nancy T. Ammerman: Congregations: Local, Social and Religious;
33: Lorne L. Dawson: Church-Sect-Cult:Constructing Typologies of Religious Groups;
34: Sam Zubaida: Sects in Islam;
VII: The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion;
35: Mathew Guest: The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion;
36: Wade Clark Roof: Generations and Religion;
37: Penny Edgell: Religion and Family;
38: Peter Collins: Religion and Ritual;
39: Stewart M. Hoover: Religion in the Media;
40: Gary R. Bunt: Religion and the Internet;
VIII: New Religion, New Spirituality and Implicit Religion;
41: David G. Bromley: New Religious Movements;
42: Eva M. Hamberg: Unchurched Spirituality;
43: Paul Heelas: Spiritualities of Life;
44: Kennet Granholm: The Sociology of Esotericism;
45: Edward Bailey: Implicit Religion;
XI: Environmental and Social Issues;
46: Mary Evelyn Tucker: Religion and Ecology;
47: Wendy Cadge: Religion, Spirituality and Health: An Institutional Approach;
48: Titus Hjelm: Religion and Social Problems: A New Theoretical Perspective;
49: Anne Birgitta Yeung: Religion and Social Problems: Individual and Institutional Responses;
50: Bryon R. Johnson: The Role of Religious Institutions in Responding to Crime and Delinquency;
51: Keishin Inaba and Kate Loewenthal: Religion and Altruism;
52: Mark Juergensmaeyer: Religious Violence;
53: Michael Kirwan: Girard, Religion, Violence, and Modern Martydom;
X: Teaching the Sociology of Religion;
54: Eleanor Nesbitt: The Teacher as Religious Ethnographer;
55: James V. Spickard: Ethnography/ Religion: Explorations in Field and Classroom;
Index