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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I Mapping the field -- Chapter 1 What is a sociology of religion? -- Inventing sociology -- Materialism and the social -- From material to meaning -- Durkheim and the social collective -- The function of religion -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 2 How do we know what we know? -- Introduction -- Religion is 'man' made -- Questioning the questioner -- Sociology of religion and ethnography -- Asking questions -- Surveys -- Ethics and method -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 3 The contemporary religious landscape: Retreat, reinvention and resurgence -- Introduction -- Retreat -- Reinvention -- New religious movements -- Resurgence -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Part II Religion and its publics -- Chapter 4 Politics and religion -- Introduction -- Locating the study of politics and religion -- At stake is the state: sharing the load -- Religion and nationalism -- Religion and politics by census -- Notes -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 5 Violence and crime -- Introduction -- Defining religious violence -- Religious genocide -- Religious terrorism -- Suicide bombing -- Religious response to crime -- Creating the criminal subject -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Chapter 6 Policing religion: Religious equality, social justice and the law -- Introduction -- What are 'human rights'? -- The public, the private: are human rights sacred? -- The role of the state in human rights -- Human rights and religion: case examples -- Right to education -- Right to work with religious beliefs -- Courts compared: the ECHR and Supreme Court (USA) -- The right to rights -- 'Rights' and the conservative/liberal divide -- Note -- Indicative reading -- Part III Contested borders -- Chapter 7 Gender and sexuality -- Introduction.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Durkheim's Sociology of Religion -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- References, notation, translations -- Abbreviations -- Introductory remarks -- PART ONE: Historical Perspectives -- Chapter One: Durkheim's religious quest. I: Adolescent changes, family life and personal beliefs -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Boyhood, youth and the rejection of Judaism -- (3) Psychoanalytic factors -- (4) The significance of Jewishness -- (5) Asceticism and family life -- (6) His religious quest -- (7) Patriotism, politics and war -- (8) The epilogue -- Chapter Two: Durkheim's religious quest. II: In professional achievement -- (1) To greater things -- (2) Disciples and the journal -- (3) Influence in the realm of education -- (4) 'More a priest than a scholar'? -- Chapter Three: The development of Durkheim's thought on religion. I: The early period -- (1) The search for lines of demarcation -- (2) Publications and substantive issues -- (3) The beginnings and early influences -- (4) Characteristics of the period -- Chapter Four: The development of Durkheim'sthought on religion. II: The middle period -- (1) The 'revelation' -- (2) Durkheim's reading of Robertson Smith -- (3) Feverish activity -- (4) Characteristics -- Chapter Five: The development of Durkheim'sthought on religion. III: The final formulation -- (1) The work continues with lectures, articles and thebook -- (2) The 1906-7 lectures: 'La Religion: les origines' -- (3) Les Formes elementaires -- (4) Its reception -- (5) Continued glory and demise -- PART TWO: Taking up positions -- Chapter Six: Procedures and assumptions -- (1) The religious beliefs of the sociologist -- (2) The careful experiment -- (3) The issue of totemism -- Chapter Seven: The sacred and the profane: the ground of religion. I: Defining the two poles -- (1) Introduction.