The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion (PDF)

Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Mapping the Sociology of Religion (Bryan S. Turner, City University of New York). Part I: The Foundations. 1. The Sociology of Religion: The Foundations (Andrew McKinnon, University Aberdeen). 2. Durkheim and After: Religion, Culture, and Politics (William Ramp, University of Lethbridge). 3. The Functional Theory of Religion (Victor Lidz, Drexel University). 4. Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Religion (Simon Coleman, University of Sussex). Part II: From Secularization to Resacralization. 5. Secularization (Steve Bruce, Formerly University of Aberdeen). 6. American Exceptionalism? (John Torpey, City University of New York). 7. Resacralization (Grace Davie, University of Exeter). Part III: New Developments. 8. Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion (David Lehmann, University of Cambridge). 9. The Religious Habitus: Embodiment, Religion, and Sociological Theory (Philip A. Mellor, University of Leeds; Chris Shilling, University of Kent). 10. Women, Religions, and Feminisms (Fang-Long Shih, London School of Economics). Part IV: Institutionalization: Old and New Forms. 11. New Research on Megachurches: Non-denominationalism and Sectarianism (Stephen Ellingson, Hamilton College). 12. The Sociology of Spirituality: Reflections on a Problematic Endeavor (Matthew Wood, Queen's University). 13. Arguing against Darwinism: Religion, Science, and Public Morality (Michael S. Evans and John H. Evans, both University of California). Part V: Sociology of Comparative Religions. 14. The Sociology of Early Christianity: From History to Theory, and Back Again (Joseph M. Bryant, University of Toronto). 15. Judaism: Covenant, Pluralism, and Piety (Alan Mittleman, Jewish Theological Seminary). 16. Sociology and Anthropology of Islam: A Critical Debate (Gabriele Marranci, National University of Singapore). 17. Approaches to the Study of Buddhism (Catherine Newell, formerly University of London). 18. Sociology of Hinduism (Pratap Kumar

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.

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