The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion is presented in three comprehensive parts. Written by a range of outstanding academics, the volume explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look in future.

• Explores the current status of the sociology of religion, and how it might look at the beginning of the next millennium.
  
• Traces the boundaries between sociology and other closely related disciplines, such as theology and social anthropology.
  
• Edited by one of the best known and most widely...