Sociology of Religion

The first sociology of religion textbook to begin the task of diversifying and decolonizing the study of religion, this book develops a sociological frame that draws together the personal, political and public, showing how religion is understood as a social institution, influenced by and influencing wider social structures.

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Abby Day is a Professor of Race, Faith and Culture in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also an international expert in the social scientific study of contemporary religion with particular interests in gender, generations, ethnicity and in de-colonizing knowledge. She is a trustee of the Sociological Review, an editorial board member of Religion, peer reviewer for several journals and funding agencies, and **past Chair of the British Sociological Association's religion section.

Inhalt

Section 1: Mapping the Field

1. What is a Sociology of Religion?

2. How do we Know What we Know?

3. The Contemporary Religious Landscape: Retreat, Reinvention and Resurgence

Section 2: Religion and its Publics

4. Politics and Religion

5. Violence and Crime

6. Policing Religion: Religious Equality, Social Justice and the Law

Section 3: Contested Borders

7. Gender and Sexuality

8. Generations

9. 'Race' Ethnicity, Social Class

Section 4: Is Nothing, or Everything, Sacred?

10. Religion and Media

11. Disease, Disability, and the Religious Response

12. Future Religion: Nones and Beyond