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: 6
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