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The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the "new" role of religion in the contemporary world, which is characterized by cultural pluralism and religious individualism. It is the aim of the ARSR to combine different methods within the social scientific study of religion. The ARSR employs an interdisciplinary and comparative approach at an international level, to describe and interpret the complexity of religious phenomena within different geopolitical situations, highlighting similarities and discontinuities. Dealing with a single theme in each

"This book re-examines the relationship between religion and nationalism in a contemporary Asian context, with a focus on East, South and South East Asia. Addressing empirical, analytical, and normative questions, it analyses selected case studies from across Asia, including China, India, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka and compares the differences and commonalities between the diverse configurations of nationalism and religion across the continent. It then goes on to explain reasons for the regional religious resurgence and asks, is the nation-state model, aligned with secularism, suitable for the region? Exploring the two interrelated issues of legacies and possibilities, this book also examines the relationship between nationalism and modernity, identifying possible and desirable trajectories which go beyond existing configurations of nationalism and religion. Bringing together a stellar line up of contributors in the field, Religion and Nationalism in Asia will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian religion and politics as well as sociology, ethnicity, nationalism and comparative politics"--

Religion and family in America : a socio-historical reconnaissance / Charles L. Harper -- Sacred kinship : creating and extending family among the Lakota of Pine Ridge / Raymond A. Bucko -- Competing portraits of the Israelite family / Ronald A. Simkins -- Reshaping family in Egypt : the Islamist discourse / John C.M. Calvert -- The sacramental texture of family life : a contemporary Roman Catholic perspective / Wendy M. Wright -- Kids caught in the crossfire : reflections on the school wars / Bette Novit Evans -- Religion, the family, and the public school during non-school hours : good news v. Milford / R. Collin Mangrum -- Culture wars, family wars? : the political mobilization of clergy on family issues / Sue E.S. Crawford, Melissa M. Deckman, Laura R. Olson -- The impact of religiosity on marital stability / Lisa A. Riley -- The shape of family and family values : the Bible tells us so, or does it? / Susan A. Calef -- An early Christian debate on marriage and family : the Jovinianist controversy / David G. Hunter -- Faith, praxis, and practical theology : at the interface of sociology and theology / Michael G. Lawler.