Religion in a Changing World Comparative Studies in Sociology

Subjects:

• Sociology » Sociology (General)
• Religious Studies » Comparative Religion

Reviews:

• The book would serve well as a supplementary reader to a textbook-based undergraduate course. Each essay is brief and clearly written, coming quickly to nuanced conclusions.
  —Choice

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Individual Religion, Choice, and Identity
• Switching in American Religion: Denominations, Markets, and Paradigms? by N.J. Demerath III and Yonghe Yang
• The "Return" to Traditional Judaism in the United States, Russia, and Israel by M. Herbert Danzger
• From West Africa to Brooklyn: Yoruba Religion Among African Americans by Mary Cuthrell Curry
• Identity Reconstruction and Empowerment of South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Helen Ralston
• Religious Views of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers in the United States by Dean Hoge, Benton Johnson, and Donald A. Luidens
• Gender and Jewish Identity Among Twenty-Somethings in the United States by Debra Renee Kaufman
• Canadian Evangelical Church Women and Responses to Family Violence by Nancy Nason-Clark
• Religious Organization
• The Inverted Norm: The Formation and Functioning of Racially Mixed Christian Congregations in South Africa by David Venter
• The Variety of Hindu Priests and Assistants: A Brief Introduction by Bradley R. Hertel
• Catholic Deacons: A Lesson in Role Conflict and Ambiguity by Frank R. DeRego, Jr. and James D. Davidson
• Attitudes to Women's Ordination in Protestant Congregations in the United States, Britain, and Australia by Edward C. Lehman, Jr.
• Latinos and Latinas in the Catholic Church: Cohesion and Conflict by Gilbert R. Cadena
• Mission Churches and Church-Sect Theory: Seventh-Day Adventists in Africa by Ronald Lawson
• Russia's Religious Market: Struggling with the Heritage of Russian Orthodox Monopoly by Jerry G. Pankhurst
• The Raelians Are Coming!: The Future of a UFO Religion by Susan Palmer
• Religion, Political Order, and Social Change
• Religions, and Regimes in China by Graeme Lang
• Diversities and Discontinuities in the Islamic Response to Modernity by Mansoor Moaddel
• The Sanctified Church and the Color Line: Reorganization, Social Change, and the African American Religious Experience by Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
• Beating Back the Enemy: How Venezuelan Pentecostals Think About Social Change by David A. Smilde
• Religion and Social Activism: The Grassroots Catholic Church in Brazil by Madeleine Cousineau
• Pragmatism and Its Discontents: The Evolution of the Christian Right in the United States by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox
• New Religions in Australia: Cultural Diffusion in Action by Gary D. Bouma
• The Earth Is Sacred: Ecological Concerns in American Wicca by Helen A. Berger
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Index