In this article, I review three contemporary streams of scholarship that are revitalizing the
cultural analysis of religion, an approach that dates to the discipline's founding. Research …

Over the last three decades, fruitful new lines of research and theorizing have revealed the
inadequacy of secularization and rational choice explanations of religion. This article argues …

The thirteen essays in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to
the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond …

Scholars have taken a growing interest in what we call “culturalized religion”—that is, forms
of religious identification, discourse, and expression that are primarily cultural in character …

Uncovers what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian,
Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian one Sociology has long used …

For religion in modern societies, the early-twenty-first century is a time of considerable and
often subtle transformation. One such subtlety is the growing attention to personal spiritual …

Four conceptual and methodological edges or areas of study are outlined. They are located
near what have been the boundaries between the sociology of religion and other subfields …

For modern social theory, as well as for many ordinary people, religious identities have been
a problem. 1 Just what does it really mean to claim a Jewish or Christian identity? To think of …

Part I Religion as a Field of Sociological Knowledge 1 The sociology of religion in late
modernity Michele Dillon 2 Studying religion, making it sociological Robert Wuthnow 3 The …

This third edition of Sociology of Religion introduces students to key principles in the
sociological understanding of religion, with revisions and updates throughout. The book …