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- Captures the breadth and depth of contemporary work in Religion and Society
- Includes cutting edge topics as digital religion, organizational innovation, national identity, sexuality and transnationalism
- Provides indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers and professionals seeking to understand the role of religion in society
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Religious Organization
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Front Matter
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About this book
The Handbook of Religion and Society is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of a vital force in the world today. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the role of religion in society. This includes both the social forces that shape religion and the social consequences of religion.
This handbook captures the breadth and depth of contemporary work in the field, and shows readers important future directions for scholarship. Among the emerging topics covered in the handbook are biological functioning, organizational innovation, digital religion, spirituality, atheism, and transnationalism. The relationship of religion to other significant social institutions like work and entrepreneurship, science, and sport is also analyzed. Specific attention is paid, where appropriate, to international issues as well as to race, class, sexuality, and gender differences.
This handbook includes 27 chapters by a distinguished, diverse, and international collection of experts, organized into 6 major sections: religion and social institutions; religious organization; family, life course, and individual change; difference and inequality; political and legal processes; and globalization and transnationalism.
Keywords
- Atheism and Religion
- Deviance and Social Control
- Difference and Inequality
- Digital Religion
- Religion and Adoleschence and Emerging Adulthood
- Religion and Aging
- Religion and Crime
- Religion and Family
- Religion and Individual Change
- Religion and Organizational Innovation
- Religion and Political Processes
- Religion and Social Institutions
- Religious Organization
- Social Consequences of Religion
- Spirituality and Religion
- Sports and Religion
- The Social Forces Shaping Religion
- Understanding the Role of Religion in Society
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA
David Yamane
About the editor
David Yamane is a Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University. Yamane’s primary scholarly interest has been in sociologically understanding organized religion, particularly Roman Catholicism in the postwar United States. His books in this area include The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political Realities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), a study of the role of conferences of Catholic bishops in state legislative politics; Real Stories of Christian Initiation: Lessons for and from the RCIA (The Liturgical Press, 2006), five case studies of the process by which individuals are initiated into the Roman Catholic church; and Becoming Catholic: Finding Rome in the American Religious Landscape (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Yamane has previously served as Editor of as of Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review (2006-2010) and Associate Editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2012-2015). He also edited Richard Schoenherr’sposthumous book, Goodbye Father: The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church (Oxford University Press, 2002), and co-authored with Keith Roberts the 6th edition of the best-selling sociology of religion textbook Religion in Sociological Perspective (Sage Publications, 2015).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Religion and Society
Editors: David Yamane
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31395-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31393-1Published: 01 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61816-6Published: 28 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31395-5Published: 15 July 2016
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 568
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Religious Studies, general, Methodology of the Social Sciences