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Informationen zum Autor BRYAN S. TURNER is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mellon Committee for the Study of Religion, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and Director of the Institute for Religion Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley College (2009-10). His most recent publications are Religion and Modern Society (Cambridge 2011) and The Religious and the Political (Cambridge 2013). With Oscar Salemink, he edited the Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia (2014). He is the founding editor with John O'Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology (Sage) and with Irfan Ahmad the Journal of Religious and Political Practice (Routledge). He received the Max Planck Award in 2015 for research on secularization and modernity: social and religious pluralism, and is a Guest Professor at the University of Potsdam. Klappentext Reflecting the very latest developments in the field, the New Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of religion with a clear emphasis on comparative and historical approaches.* Covers major debates in secularization theory, rational choice theory, feminism and the body* Takes a multidisciplinary approach, covering history, sociology, anthropology, and religious studies* International in its scope, covering American exceptionalism, Native American spirituality, and China, Europe, and Southeast Asia* Offers discussions on the latest developments, including "megachurches", spirituality, post-secular society and globalization Zusammenfassung Reflecting the very latest developments in the field, the New Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of religion with a clear emphasis on comparative and historical approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors Introduction: Mapping the Sociology of Religion 1 Bryan S. Turner Part I The Foundations 31 1 The Sociology of Religion: The Foundations 33 Andrew McKinnon 2 Durkheim and After: Religion, Culture, and Politics 52 William Ramp 3 The Functional Theory of Religion 76 Victor Lidz 4 Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Religion 103 Simon Coleman Part II From Secularization to Resacralization 123 5 Secularization 125 Steve Bruce 6 American Exceptionalism? 141 John Torpey 7 Resacralization 160 Grace Davie Part III New Developments 179 8 Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion 181 David Lehmann 9 The Religious Habitus: Embodiment, Religion, and Sociological Theory 201 Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling 10 Women, Religions, and Feminisms 221 Fang-Long Shih Part IV Institutionalization: Old and New Forms 245 11 New Research on Megachurches: Non-denominationalism and Sectarianism 247 Stephen Ellingson 12 The Sociology of Spirituality: Reflections on a Problematic Endeavor 267 Matthew Wood 13 Arguing against Darwinism: Religion, Science, and Public Morality 286 Michael S. Evans and John H. Evans Part V Sociology of Comparative Religions 309 14 The Sociology of Early Christianity: From History to Theory, and Back Again 311 Joseph M. Bryant 15 Judaism: Covenant, Pluralism, and Piety 340 Alan Mittleman 16 Sociology and Anthropology of Islam: A Critical Debate 364 Gabriele Marranci 17 Approaches to the Study of Buddhism 388 Catherine Newell 18 Sociology of Hinduism 407 Pratap Kumar Penumala 19 Religious Awakening in China under Communi...
