The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion

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Part I: Theories and concepts. Classical tradition in sociology of religion / Randall Collins ; Assessing modernities : from 'pre-' to 'post-' to 'ultra-' / Kevin J. Christiano ; Secularization and sacralization deconstructed and reconstructed / N.J. Demerath III ; Rational choice and religious economies / Frank J. Lechner ; Globalization and glocalization / Peter Beyer

Part II: Methods of studying. Micro qualitative approaches to the sociology of religion : phenomenologies, interviews, narratives, and ethnographies / James V. Spickard ; Surveys of behaviour, beliefs and affiliation : micro-quantitative / David Voas ; History, methodologies, and the study of religion / John R. Hall

Part III: Social forms and experiences of religion. Congregations resurgent / N.J. Demerath III, Arthur E. Farnsley II ; Evangelicalism and fundamentalism : the politics of global popular protestantism / Paul Freston ; From 'cults' to new religious movements : coherence, definition, and conceptual framing in the study of new religious movements / Thomas Robbins, Phillip Charles Lucas ; New age religion and irreligion / William Sims Bainbridge ; Civil religion in America and in global context / Marcela Cristi, Lorne L. Dawson

Part IV: Issues of power and control in religious organisations. Keepers of the tradition : religious professionals and their careers / Paula Nesbitt ; Orders and schisms on the sacred periphery / Patricia Wittberg ; Faith-based initiatives / Arthur E. Farnsley II ; Religion on the internet / Douglas E. Cowan

Part V: Religion and politics. Religion and the state, violence and human rights / N.J. Demerath III ; Religion and regulation / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson ; Religion in rebellion, resistance, and social movements / Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Rhys H. Williams ; Religious affiliations, political preferences and ideological alignments / Laura R. Olson

Part VI: Individual religious behaviour in social context. Cross-national comparisons of individual religiosity / Pierre Bréchon ; Rethinking the relationship between ethnicity and religion / Peter Kivisto ; Religious socialization among American youth : how faith shapes parents, children, and adolescents / John P. Bartkowski ; Age, generation, and cohort in American religion and spirituality / Michele Dillon

Part VII: Religion, self-identity and the life-course. Religion and identity / Arthur L. Greil, Lynn Davidman ; Gender differences in religious practice and significance / Linda Woodhead ; Embodiment, emotion and religious experience : religion, culture and the charismatic body / Philip A. Mellor ; Religion as a factor in life and death through the life-course / Stephen J. Hunt

Part VIII: Case studies from around the world. Oligopoly dynamics : official religions in China / Fenggang Yang ; Religious landscape of Central and Eastern Europe after communism / Irena Borowik ; Judaism in Israel : public religion, neo-traditionalism, messianism and ethno-religious conflict / Stephen Sharot ; State shinto and religion in post-war Japan / Susumu Shimazono ; Mexico : a mirror for the sociology of religion / Roberto J. Blancarte