The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion
The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion
Editors: Possamai, Adam and Blasi, Anthony J.
Publication Year: 2020
Publisher: Sage UK
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-47-394220-2
Category: Religion & Theology
Image Count:
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion takes a look at the role of religion in society; unpacking and evaluating the significance of religion in and on human history; and tracing and outlining the social forces and influences that shape religion.
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Table of Contents
- Editorial Board
- Reader’s Guide
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Introduction
- A
- Abortion
- Acquaviva, Sabino
- Activism
- Adorcism
- Aesthetics
- African Christianity
- African Diaspora: Religious Practices
- African Religions
- Age
- Agnosticism
- AI
- Al-Biruni
- Alevism
- Alternation
- Amish
- Anabaptist
- Ancestor Worship
- Anglican Church
- Animism
- Anomie
- Anthropology of Religion
- Anti-Cult Movement
- Anti-Semitism
- Apocalyptic Movements
- Apostasy
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Asceticism
- Assabiyah
- Association for the Sociology of Religion
- Astrology
- Atheism
- Atonement
- Attachment Theory and the Study of Religion
- Attribution Theory
- Aum Shinrikyo
- Authority
- Axial Age
- Azevedo, Thales
- B
- Baha’i Faith
- Baptist Church
- Bastide, Roger
- Bataille, Georges
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Beliefs
- Believing Without Belonging
- Bellah, Robert N.
- Berger, Peter
- Big Data Analysis
- Blasphemy
- Body, The
- Boko Haram
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Brahma Kumaris
- Brainwashing
- Branch Davidians
- Brigolage
- Buddhism
- C
- Caillois, Roger
- Calvinism
- Candomblé
- Canon Law
- Caodaism
- Cargo Cults
- Carrier, Hervé
- Case Study
- Catholicism
- Celibacy
- Census
- Chaplaincy
- Charisma
- Charity
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Children of God
- Christian Right
- Christian Zionism
- Christianity
- Church of Almighty God
- Church–Sect Theory
- Church–State Relations
- Civil Religion
- Clarke, Peter
- Class
- Clergy
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Collective Effervescence
- Comparative–Historical Methods
- Comte, Auguste
- Conflict Perspective
- Confucianism
- Conjure
- Conspiracy Theories
- Consumer Culture
- Contemplation
- Content Analysis
- Conversion
- Counterculture
- Creationism and Intelligent Design
- Critical Theory
- Critique of Positivism
- Cultic Milieu
- Cultural, Religious, and Spiritual Capital
- Cultural Studies
- Culture
- D
- Daesoon Jinrihoe
- Daoism, or Taoism
- De Certeau, Michel
- Death
- Definition of Religion
- Demography of Religion
- Denomination
- Deprivation Theory
- Deprogramming
- Desroche, Henri
- Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization
- Detraditionalization and Retraditionalization of Religion
- Deviance
- Norms and Conformity
- Diffused Religion
- Digital Activism
- Digital Religion
- Discourse Analysis
- Doomsday Cults
- Douglas, Mary
- Du Bois, William E. B.
- Dumont, Fernand
- Durkheim, Émile
- E
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Economics and Religion
- Economy and Society, by Max Weber
- Ecospirituality
- Ecstasy and Ecstatic Religion
- Education and Religious Diversity
- Eisenstadt, Shmuel N.
- El Shaddai Movement
- Elderly, The
- Elective Affinity
- The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, by Émile Durkheim
- Eliade, Mircea
- Emerging Church
- Emotion
- Engaged Buddhism
- Environment and Religion
- Episcopal Church
- Erhard Seminars Training (est)
- Esotericism
- Ethnicity
- Ethnography
- Eugenics
- Euthanasia
- Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
- Exorcism
- Exoticism, Religious
- F
- Faith-Based Organizations
- Falun Gong
- Family
- Fanfani, Amintore
- Feminism
- Fertility
- Fichter, Joseph
- Folk Religion
- Foucault, Michel
- Frazer, James G.
- Freedom of Religion
- Freud, Sigmund
- Functionalism
- Fundamentalism
- G
- Geertz, Clifford J.
- Gender
- Ghosts and Spirits
- Ghosts, Spirits, and the Origin of Religion
- Globalization
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Greeley, Andrew
- Gülen Movement
- Gustafsson, Göran
- H
- Habitus
- Hadden, Jeffrey K.
- Halal
- Halbwachs, Maurice
- Hammond, Phillip E.
- Haram
- Hare Krishna (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
- Hargrove, Barbara
- Hasidism
- Heaven’s Gate
- Hezbollah
- Higher Education
- Hijab
- Hindu Nationalism
- Hinduism
- Historical Sociology
- Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Houtart, François
- Human Potential Movement
- Human Rights and Religion
- Humanism
- Hybridity
- Hyper-Real Religion
- I
- Ibn-Khaldun
- Ideal Types
- Identity
- Ideology
- Illuminati
- Immigrant Religion
- Implicit Religion
- Inculturation
- Indigenous Religions
- Individualism and Individualization
- Integrism
- Intelligent Design
- Intentional Communities
- Interfaith Dialogue
- International Development and Religion
- International Society for the Sociology of Religion
- Interrituality
- Intersectionality
- Interviews
- Invisible Religion
- ISIS
- Islam
- Islamic Finance
- Islamic Jihad
- Islamization
- Islamophobia
- J
- Jainism
- Jama’at at-Tabligh
- James, William
- Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Jesus People
- K
- Kabbalah
- L
- Laïcité
- Lambert, Yves
- Late Modernity and Postmodernity
- Latter-day Saints
- Law and Religion
- Le Bras, Gabriel
- Leclercq, Jacques
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- LGBTQI* People and Religion
- Liberation Theology
- Life Stories
- Lived Religion
- Longitudinal Study
- Luckmann, Thomas
- Lutheranism
- M
- Maduro, Otto
- Magic
- Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Malinowski, Bronislaw
- Mana
- Marian Apparitional Movements
- Marketization and Branding
- Martin, David
- Martyrdom
- Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich
- Material Culture
- Mauss, Marcel
- McDonaldization
- Mecca
- Media
- Meditation
- Megachurch
- Mennonite
- Methodism
- Millennialism
- Mindfulness
- Missionization
- Modernization and Modernity
- Mol, Hans
- Monasticism
- Monotheism
- Monsters and Horror
- Mormons
- Movies
- Multiculturalism
- Multiple Modernities
- Multiple Secularities
- Music
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Mysterium Tremendum
- Mysticism
- N
- Naqshbandiya
- Narrative Analysis
- Nation of Islam
- Nationalism
- Native American New Religions
- Neal, Marie Augusta
- Neo-Pentecostalism
- Neo-Shamanism
- Neo-Sufism
- New Age Movement
- New Religious Movements
- Nuwaubian Nation
- O
- O’Dea, Thomas F.
- Online Ethnography
- Ontological Security
- Opus Dei
- Order of the Solar Temple
- Ordination
- Orientalism
- Otherworldly and Inner-Worldly
- Otto, Rudolf
- P
- Paganism, Contemporary
- Pancasila
- Papacy
- Paranormal
- Parsons, Talcott
- Participant Observation
- Pentecostalism
- Peoples Temple
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Religion
- Piety and Pietism
- Pilgrimage and Tourism
- Pillarization
- Plausibility Structure
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church
- Politics and Religion
- Popular Religion
- Possession, Spiritual
- Post-apocalypse
- Postcolonialism
- Post-Islamism
- Postmodernism
- Postsecular Society
- Prayer
- Predestination
- Prejudice and Racism
- Presbyterianism
- Prison, Religion in
- Privatization of Religion
- Procession
- Profane
- Prophecy
- Prosperity Gospel
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, by Max Weber
- Protestant Ethic Thesis
- Protestantism
- Protestantization of Religion
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychology of Religion
- Public Faith
- Public Funding of Religion
- Puritanism
- Q
- Quakers
- Qualitative Data Analysis Software
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Data Analysis Software
- Quantitative Research
- Quimbanda
- R
- Race
- Radicalization
- Raëlians
- Rajneesh/Osho Movement
- Rastafarianism
- Rational Choice Theory
- Reasonable Accommodation
- Reenchantment and Disenchantment
- Refugees
- Religion and Health
- Religion and Science
- Religion in China
- Religious Accommodation
- Religious Diversity
- Religious Entrepreneurship
- Religious Experience
- Religious Field
- Religious Healing
- Religious Literacy
- Religious Research Association
- Religious Studies
- Resacralization
- Research Committee 22 for the Sociology of Religion
- Research Methods in the Sociology of Religion
- Revivalism
- Risk Society and Religion
- Ritual
- Rohingya People
- Rosicrucianism
- Routinization
- S
- Sacred
- Sacrifice
- Sai Baba Movement
- Saint-Simon, Henri de
- Salafism
- Salvation Army
- San La Muerte
- Sangha
- Santa Muerte
- Satanism
- Schism
- Scientology
- Secular Spirituality
- Secularization
- Seekership
- Séguy, Jean
- Sexuality
- Shamanism
- Shari’a
- Shariati, Ali
- Shi’ite Islam
- Shinto
- Sikhism
- Simmel, Georg
- Social Cohesion
- Social Constructivism
- Social Control
- Social Darwinism
- Social Fact
- Social Gospel Movement
- Social Justice
- Social Memory
- Social Movements
- Social Psychology
- Social Theory
- Socialization
- Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
- Soka Gakkai International
- Sound
- Spatial Analysis
- Spencer, Herbert
- Spiritualism
- Spirituality
- Sport
- Standardization
- State Management of Religion
- State Religion/Official Religion
- Stratification
- Structuralism
- Sturzo, Luigi
- Subud
- Sufism
- Suicide
- Sunni Islam
- Supply-Side Theory
- Survey Methodology
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Symbolic Power and Violence
- Syncretism
- Syriac Christianity
- Syro-Malabar Churches
- Systems Theory
- T
- Tablighi Jama’at
- Taboo
- Tattoos
- Taxes
- Televangelism
- Tenrikyō
- Theology
- Theosophy
- Theravāda Buddhism
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Time Series Analysis
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Tomka, Miklós
- Totemism
- Tradition
- Transformative Phenomenology
- Transnationalism
- Troeltsch, Ernst
- U
- UFO Cults
- Ulama
- Umbanda
- Ummah
- Unification Church
- Universalism
- V
- Vaillancourt, Jean-Guy
- Values
- Vatican
- Vatican II
- Vicarious Religion
- Victory Altar
- Video and Role-Playing Games
- Violence
- Virtuoso
- Visual Sociology
- Vitalism
- Vocation
- Voodoo
- W
- Wach, Joachim
- Wahhabism
- Wallis, Roy
- Weber, Max
- Weixin Shengjiao
- Welfare
- Well-being
- Westernization and Easternization of Religion
- Wicca
- Willems, Emilio
- Wilson, Bryan R.
- Witchcraft
- Y
- Yezidis
- Yinger, J. Milton
- Yoga
- Youth
- Z
- Zen Buddhism
- Zionism
- Zoroastrianism