The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 November 2008
- ISBN 9780199279791
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1064 pages
- Size 253x176x59 mm
- Weight 1949 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An expert team of international scholars provide fifty-one essays as entry points into the sociological study and understanding of religion and in-depth surveys into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world. Issues discussed range from ecology to law, art to cognitive science, crime to health care.
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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.
This handsome book... is particularly welcome and should find a place in every well-stocked library, both academic and other... I particularly like the mix of experienced and younger scholars 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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction:Towards a Global Framework and Organic Understanding of Religion
I: Theory: Classical, Modern and Postmodern
Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion
The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian History, and Anthropological Practice Theory
Max Weber: Religion and Modernization
Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism: the Kantian Theory of Secularization
Religion in the Works of Habermas, Bourdieu and Foucault
Rational Choice Theory: A Critique
Religion and Gender
Religion and Modernity Worldwide
Postmodernism and Religion
Religion and Power
Culture and Religion
I: Method
Methodology in the Sociology of Religion
Conceptual Models in the Study of Religion
Defining Religion: A Social Science Approach
Explaining Religion through Cognitive Science
III: Religion and related spheres: Morality, Science, Irreligion, Art and Sexuality
Science and Religion
Atheism
Religion and Morality
The Contemporary Convergence of Art and Religion
The Social Roots and Meaning of Trance and Possession
IV: Religion and the State, the Nation, the Law
Religion and the State
Religion and Nationalism
Religion and the Law: An Interactionist View
The Socio-cultural and Socio-religious Origins of Human Rights
V: Globalisation and its Religious Effects
Globalization, Theocratization and Politicized Civil Rights
Migration and the Globalization of Religion
Religious Fundamentalism
Religious Diversity
VI: Standard or Mainstream Religion
The Meaning and Scope of Secularization
The Sociology of the Clergy
Congregations: Local, Social and Religious
Church-Sect-Cult:Constructing Typologies of Religious Groups
Sects in Islam
VII: The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion
The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion
Generations and Religion
Religion and Family
Religion and Ritual
Religion in the Media
Religion and the Internet
VIII: New Religion, New Spirituality and Implicit Religion
New Religious Movements
Unchurched Spirituality
Spiritualities of Life
The Sociology of Esotericism
Implicit Religion
XI: Environmental and Social Issues
Religion and Ecology
Religion, Spirituality and Health: An Institutional Approach
Religion and Social Problems: A New Theoretical Perspective
Religion and Social Problems: Individual and Institutional Responses
The Role of Religious Institutions in Responding to Crime and Delinquency
Religion and Altruism
Religious Violence
Girard, Religion, Violence, and Modern Martydom
X: Teaching the Sociology of Religion
The Teacher as Religious Ethnographer
Ethnography/ Religion: Explorations in Field and Classroom
Index
