Religious faith is under assault. In books and movies and on television, militant secular critics attack religion with a renewed vigor. These “new athei......
A series of lectures on the political aspects of St. Augustine's "City of God" by John Neville Figgis. Excerpts: ...There are those who are for treating S.......
Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester's pathbreaking book features a ne......
Beyond Belief collects fifteen celebrated, broadly ranging essays in which Robert Bellah interprets the interplay of religion and society in concrete context......
In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guine......
Why do secular states pursue different policies toward religion? This book provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the......
Congregations in Conflict examines the nature of American congregations as institutions, looking in particular at how they deal with conflict within their ra......
In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporar......
In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his soci......
This explores the question of when and why violence by and against new religious cults erupts and whether and how such dramatic conflicts can be foreseen, ma......
This book analyses the revival of charismatic Protestant Christianity as an example of globalisation. Simon Coleman shows that, along with many social moveme......
This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said's critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which it is predi......
This handbook showcases current research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide......
This landmark interdisciplinary volume presents new methodological options for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. Ten distinguished scholars ......
At a time when secular liberalism is in crisis and when the civic contribution of religion is being re-assessed, the rich tradition of Christian political th......
At a time of renewed interest in Empire, this stimulating volume explores the complex relationship between the Bible and the colonial enterprise, and examine......
Early Buddhism flourished because it was able to take up the challenge represented by buoyant economic conditions and the need for cultural uniformity in the......
The book sets out to address and answer three questions from the point of view of Christian theology. The first is, from where does theology speak? The secon......
How will the study of theology and the religions in higher education be shaped in the coming century? This book offers several different perspectives on this......
Max Weber's 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' is one of the best-known and most enduring texts of classical sociology, continually inspirat......
