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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Religion and Conflict in Northern Ireland: Context -- Brief History -- Religion in Northern Ireland -- Religious Landscape -- Secularisation -- Conservative Religious Culture -- Religion and Political Orientation -- References -- 3 Religion as Source of Conflict: Interpretations and Evidence -- General Overview -- The Weight of History -- Religion Is Important… Because It Is -- The Test Case: Protestantism and Unionist Politics -- References -- 4 Religion and the Reproduction of Social Divisions in Northern Ireland -- Anti-Catholicism and Subjectivism -- Religion in Socio-economic Context -- Sectarianism, Intra-Class Dynamics and Politics -- References -- 5 Sociology and Conflict: Epistemological Challenges -- The Anti-Catholic Illusio -- Double Play and Historical Materialism -- Politics and the Sociological Understanding of Inequalities -- Inequalities and the Sociology of Religion in Northern Ireland -- Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Protestantism, Reciprocity and Equivalences -- References -- Conclusion -- Synthesis -- Critical Sociology and Social Conflict -- What Does Religion Do? -- References -- Index.

In Religion, Politics, and Polarization, three esteemed scholars trace the confluence of religion and party in the US Congress over time. The authors examine several issues of contemporary relevance as they trace the increasing polarization in Congress.

Intro -- Political Religion, Everyday Religion: Sociological Trends -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Recent Developments in the Sociology of Religion: Theories and Approaches -- Religious Diversity: Sociological Issues and Perspectives -- From Theories of Secularization and Return of Religion - to Religious Complexity -- Social Semiotics in the Study of Religion -- More Dialogue between Approaches: Everyday Religion and Political Religion -- Religious Practices in the Framework of Ash Scattering and Contact with the Dead -- Methodological Challenges to the Study of Religious Peacebuilding -- Part 2: Normativity and Empirical Studies: Sociology of Religion in a Wider Context -- Sociology of Religion in Contexts: Institutional Constraints and Personal Beliefs -- Empirically Informed Theology -- Empirically Informed Ethics -- Hell, Perdition and Feelgood -- Part 3: Research Notes from Young Norwegian Sociologists of Religion -- Camping with God and Goffman -- From Sin to a Gift from God -- Street Religion: Faith among Romanian Beggars -- A Pilgrimage in the Mountains -- Preaching at Funerals -- Name and Subject Index.