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 …

The primary tension in public discourse about the US government's response to the
coronavirus pandemic has been President Trump's disagreement with scientists. The …

This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of
virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular …

We show how gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) ministers in two mainline
Protestant denominations in the United States experience and address a salient institutional …

The assumption that resource availability enhances the likelihood of collective action is
generally taken for granted by contemporary analysts of social movements (see Zald 1992; …

Knjiga pred nama predstavlja zbornik radova s konferencije održane 2003. godine na
Sveučilištu u Bostonu. Osim predgovora (Peter Berger) i uvoda (Nancy Ammerman), knjiga …

That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been
taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design …

How can company leaders and employees negotiate their different religious and spiritual
commitments in the workplace? At a time of international debate over religious conflict and …

This fully updated Sixth Edition of Religion in Sociological Perspective introduces students
to the basic theories and methods in the field, and shows them how to apply these analytic …

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the
Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was …