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Sociologies in Dialogue brings together expert contributions from international scholars, who reflect on the importance of collaboration between diverse sociological perspectives to enhance our understanding of the role of sociology as an academic discipline, and as a vehicle for social change.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for consideration, contestation and discussion, and a framework for the research-led volumes that follow in the series. Gurminder K. Bhambra takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they can be rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies and decoloniality, two of the most distinctive critical approaches of the past decades.

How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special volume brings together leading sociologists to offer some answers and examples. The chapters offer new postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park

"Sociologies of Religion: National Traditions presents fourteen histories of the sociological study of religion in a diverse set of nations. The authors narrate the stories behind major personages, theoretical traditions, seminal works, research institutes, and professional associations."--

Contents -- Preface. Finding Ourselves -- Introduction. How to Tell the Story of the History of the Sociology of Religion (Giordan) -- Chapter 1. Sociology of Religion in French Canada: Vicisitudinous Relations between Autonomous Knowledge and Institutional Dependence (Meunier) -- Chapter 2. The Historical Development of the Sociology of Religion in English-Speaking Canada (Wilkinson) -- Chapter 3. Sociology of Religion in the United States (Blasi) -- Chapter 4. Social Scientists and Disenchanters: Some Basic Themes of Brazilian Sociology of Religion (Motta) -- Chapter 5. Sociology of Religion in Great Britain: Interdisciplinarity and Gradual Diversification (Catto) -- Chapter 6. Sociology of Religion in the Netherlands (de Groot and Sengers) -- Chapter 7. Sociology of Religion in Belgium: From Institutional Reference to a Sociological Analysis of Society (Dobbelaere and Voyé) -- Chapter 8. The Sociology of Religion in Germany since 1945 (Pollack) -- Chapter 9. France: Re-Founding the Sociology of Religion from Émile Durkheim to the Groupe de Sociologie des Religions and Beyond (Lassave) -- Chapter 10. Politics, Religion and Sociology in Spain: The History of a Discipline (Griera) -- Chapter 11. The Sociology of Religion in Italy (Giordan) -- Chapter 12. Society under Siege: The Peculiar Story of the Development of the Sociology of Religion in Croatia (Zrinščak) -- Chapter 13. A History of the Sociology of Religion in Japan (Roemer) -- Chapter 14. Sociology of Religion in Australia (Bouma, Ezzy, Halafoff and Possamai) -- Contributors