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Zusatztext The contributors of these chapters have been chosen from an impressive pool of top international academics in the field. Not only has the editor done a great job in finding leading academics to write on the most topical issues, but also all the contributors have written a very informative piece, using the most recent data and theories. All the chapters are a delight to read...This is an impressive volume that will delight the student as much as the erudite in the field. All the academic libraries should order this volume as it will soon become an essential reference to any subject in the sociology of religion. It is a must for anyone who calls himself/herself a sociologist of religion to have a copy of this book on his/her bookshels. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion draws on the expertise of an international team of scholars providing both an entry point into the sociological study and understanding of religion and an in-depth survey into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world. The role and impact of religion and spirituality on the politics! culture! education and health in the modern world is rigorously discussed and debated. The study of the sociology of religion forges interdisciplinary links to explore aspects of continuity and change in the contemporary interface between society and religion. Using a combination of theoretical! methodological and content-led approaches! the fifty-seven contributors collectively emphasise the complex relationships between religion and aspects of life from scientific research to law! ecology to art! music to cognitive science! crime to institutional health care and more. The developing character of religion! irreligion and atheism and the impact of religious diversity on social cohesion are explored. An overview of current scholarship in the field is provided in each themed chapter with an emphasis on encouraging new thinking and reflection on familiar and emergent themes to stimulate further debate and scholarship. The resulting essay collection provides an invaluable resource for research and teaching in this diverse discipline. Zusammenfassung An expert team of international scholars provide fifty-one essays as entry points into the sociological study and understanding of religion and in-depth surveys into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world. Issues discussed range from ecology to law, art to cognitive science, crime to health care. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Peter Clarke: Introduction:Towards a Global Framework and Organic Understanding of Religion I: Theory: Classical, Modern and Postmodern 2: William E. Paden: Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion 3: David N. Geller: The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian History, and Anthropological Practice Theory 4: Hans G. Kippenberg: Max Weber: Religion and Modernization 5: Bryan S. Turner: Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism: the Kantian Theory of Secularization 6: Inger Furseth: Religion in the Works of Habermas, Bourdieu and Foucault 7: Malcolm Hamilton: Rational Choice Theory: A Critique 8: Sian Hawthorne: Religion and Gender 9: Robert W. Hefner: Religion and Modernity Worldwide 10: Nikolai Wenzel: Postmodernism and Religion 11: Meerten ter Borg: Religion and Power 12: Matt Waggoner: Culture and Religion I: Method 13: Ole Preben Riis: Methodology in the Sociology of Religion 14: Jeppe Sinding Jensen: Conceptual Models in the Study of Religion 15: André Droogers: Defining Religion: A Social Science Approach 16: K. Helmut Reich: Explaining Religion through Cognitive Science III: Religion and related spheres: Morality, Science, Irreligion, Art and Sexuality 17: William Sims Bainbridge: Science and Religion 18: William Sims Bainbridge: Atheism 19: John Reeder: Religion and Morality ...
