Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates

Abstract

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "Introduction" -- "PART I: CLASSICAL ROOTS" -- "1 Religion as an Elementary Aspect of Society: Durkheim's Legacy for Social Theory" -- "2 Weber, Rationalisation, and Religious Evolution in the Modern Era" -- "3 Spiritualism and the (Re-)Enchantment of Modernity" -- "4 Trajectories of Faith in the Global Age: Classical Theory and Contemporary Evidence" -- "5 'Magico-popular Religion' in Contemporary Society: Towards a Post-Western Sociology of Religion" -- "PART II: NEW GROWTH" -- "6 Religion in Ultramodernity" -- "7 Theodicy, Distribution of Risk, and Reflexive Modernisation: Explaining the Cultural Significance of New Religious Movements" -- "8 Privatisation, Globalisation, and Religious Innovation: Giddens' Theory of Modernity and the Refutation of Secularisation Theory" -- "9 From Creeds to Burgers: Religious Control, Spiritual Search, and the Future of the World" -- "10 Understanding Honour and Religion as Resource and Constraint for Young British Asians" -- "11 Preference Structures and Normative Constraints in Movements Outside, Between, and Within Religious Organisations" -- "PART III: FRESH BLOOMS" -- "12 Narrative Versus Theory in the Sociology of Religion: Five Stories of Religion's Place in the Late Modern World" -- "13 'A Minimalist Sociology of Religion'?" -- "14 New Media, Niche Markets, and the Body: Excarnate and Hypercarnate Challenges for Theory and Theology" -- "15 Inner Speech and Religious Traditions" -- "16 Sickness and Salvation: Social Theories of the Body in the Sociology of Religion" -- "17 Breaching Bleaching: Integrating Studies of 'Race' and Ethnicity with the Sociology of Religion