Religion Matters: How Sociology Helps Us Understand Religion in Our World

ISBN-13: 9781032021454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 408 str.

Mirola, William A.

Opis

The second edition of Religion Matters focuses on religion’s interplay with broader society, introducing students to the basic questions, ideas, and methods with which sociologists have analyzed the relationship between religion and society.

Spis treści

1. Why religion?  2. "You Believe What?"  3. Downloading God, "Big-Box" Churches, and the Crystal Shop Around the Corner  4. Can’t We All Just Get Along?  5. News Flash: God’s Not Dead (an Neither is the Goddess!)  6. God is on Our Side and They are Idiots  7. Giving Divine Right to Kings While Also Casting Down the Mighty  8. What are God’s Pronouns?  9. Adam, Eve, and Steve  10. Blessed are the Meek, Woe to the Rich, but What about those Classes In-between?  11. The (Not So Great) Color Wall of the United States (Isaiah G. Jeong and Tryce D. Prince)  12. Who Brought the Enchiladas to my Bat Mitzvah?  13. End of days? Religion Meets Climate Change  14. Do we need god to do good?