Recently added articles from Sociology of Religion:
Poor teenagers' religion *.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION While questions about the relationship between social class and religion are as old as the field of sociology, sociologists have paid little attention to the effects of poverty on American religion in the last few decades. Influential European sociologists, such as ...
Analyzing race in Asian American congregations *.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION There has been steady growth in the last two decades in the social scientific literature examining contemporary Asian American religious communities. While much of this literature has relied on theoretical models based on European American experiences, scholars such ...
An investigation of the sociological patterns of prayer frequency and content *.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... It would be difficult to overstate the importance of prayer to religion, for it is "belief and ritual at the same time" (Mauss 2003:22) and "to religion what thinking is to philosophy" (the poet Novalis as quoted in Heiler 1932:viii). Although prayer represents a fundamental aspect of ...
How denominational resources influence debate about homosexuality in mainline protestant congregations *.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Leaders and members of mainline Protestant denominations have been arguing about homosexuality for the past thirty years. While each mainline denomination has tried to settle conflicts and reach tenable compromises regarding homosexuality, the issue remains a centrally contentious, and ...
Transnational religious connections *.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Scholars increasingly observe that religion in the United States cannot be understood by considering only the United States. This observation has arisen from several rather disparate lines of inquiry: theoretical arguments about globalization, studies of immigrant congregations, surveys ...
Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Theorising religion: Classical and contemporary Debates, edited by James A. Beckford and John Walliss. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006, 257 pp.; $89.95 USD (cloth). As will any collection of seventeen essays, this volume defies simple description or evaluation. The title is ...
An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... An Introduction to the sociology of religion, by Inger Furseth and Pal Repstad. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006, 241 pp.; $29.95 USD (paper), $99.95 USD (cloth). Similar to books written by Meredith McGuire, Ronald Johnstone, Malcolm Hamilton, Stephen Hunt, Kevin Christiano et ...
Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Between Heaven and Earth: The religious Worlds people make and the Scholars who study them, by Robert A. Orsi. Princeton: Princeton University press, 2006, 264 pp.; $18.95 USD (paper). In Between Heaven and Earth Robert Orsi offers important insights about the study of religion ...
Researching New Religious Movements: Responses and Redefinitions.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Researching new religious movements: Responses and redefinitions, by Elisabeth Arweck. New York: routledge, 2006, 446 pp.; $39.95 USD (paper), $125.00 USD (cloth). This is an excellent work of historical scholarship about the controversy surrounding new religious movements, as ...
Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction, by Brian Morris. New York: Cambridge University press, 2006, 360 pp.; $29.99 USD (paper), $75.00 (cloth). In Religion and Anthropology, Brian Morris--Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of London--offers a ...
The Rise of Mormonism.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The Rise of Mormonism, by Rodney Stark. New York: Columbia University press, 2005, 192 pp.; $39.50 USD (cloth). This slim volume on The Rise of Mormonism is both a reprise and a melding of several major themes on which Rodney Stark has focused attention for most of his ...
Implications of the Sacred in (Post)Modern Media.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Implications of the Sacred in (Post)Modern Media, edited by Johanna Sumiala-Seppanen, Knut Lundby, and Raimo Salokangas. Gothenberg, Sweden: Nordic information centre for media and communication research, 2006, 274 pp.; $99.50 USD (paper). There is an emerging scholarly ...
Religion, Media, and the Marketplace.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Religion, Media, and the Marketplace, edited by Lynn Schofield Clark. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, University press, 2007, 325 pp.; $27.95 USD (paper), $70,00 USD (cloth). An extraordinarily well-timed compilation of work, Religion, Media, and the Marketplace features eleven ...