Recently added articles from Sociology of Religion:
Thanks, again.(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2008; ... As I put the finishing touches on the final issue of the second volume of Sociology of Religion I have edited, I once again give thanks to the people who make this publication possible. The journal would not be of any quality without the reviewers--those who contributed at least one review ...
Religious stratification: its origins, persistence, and consequences.(2007 Association for the Sociology of Religion Presidential Address)(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... As sociologists, our job is to study social structures and processes. One of the things we have studied most is social stratification, the vertical ranking of individuals and groups in terms of their access to power, privilege, and prestige (Lenski 1966). Power is a largely political ...
Limestone prophets: gauging the effectiveness of religious political action organizations that lobby state legislatures.(2007 Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture)(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The religious groups or denominations to which most Americans belong have long had an official presence in state capital buildings. Generally speaking, their purpose is to help their local congregations and central religious bodies to influence the state legislative arena achieve public ...
Continuity and change in American congregations: introducing the second wave of the National Congregations Study.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Congregations remain the most significant social form of American religion. Thanks to a near explosion of research on congregations in recent years, we now know a lot about them. We know their typical patterns of connection to other religious and community organizations (Ammerman 2005), ...
Forum on Christian Smith's "why Christianity works": editor's introduction.
Dec 22, 2008; ... There has been some controversy surrounding the publication of Christian Smith's "Why Christianity Works: An Emotions-Focused Phenomenological Account" in the summer 2007 issue of Sociology of Religion. I received an almost immediate e-mail response from one of the journal's associate ...