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Believing in the Net
Leiden University Press 2010; US$ 52.75This study shows that, in an implicit form, religion can be found everywhere in our culture. more...
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
BRILL 2011; US$ 166.00The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us? more...
Druidry and Meditation
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99When I started running meditation groups, I searched for a book that would tell me how to do it. There wasn?t one. Like many Pagans, I hate dogma and resent being told exactly what to do. But at the same time, like everyone starting out on something new, I wanted a frame to hang my work from. I learned the hard, slow way. Druidry and Meditation... more...
A Comparative Sociology of World Religions
NYU Press 2001; US$ 79.00A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In each case the volume contextualizes how the relationships between these two religious forms fit within, and are influenced by, the wider socio-political environment.... more...
The Post-Secular in Question
NYU Press 2012; US$ 50.00The Post-Secular in Question considers whether there has in fact been a religious resurgence of global dimensions in recent decades. This collection of original essays by leading academics represents an interdisciplinary intervention in the continuing and ever-transforming discussion of the role of religion and secularism in today's world. Foregrounding... more...
Entheogens, Myth, and Human Consciousness
Ronin Publishing 2012; US$ 16.95ENTHEOGENS, MYTH AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS is a much needed accessible exploration into the role of psychoactive sacraments - entheogens - in religion, mythology, and history, and also includes most treatments of the subject focus on modern scientific research, psychotherapy, are auto-bibliographic accounts, or are agenda-driven or otherwise naive and... more...
Religion and Place
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This unique collection highlights the importance of landscape, politics and piety to our understandings of religion and place. The geographies of religion have developed rapidly in the last couple of decades and this book provides both a conceptual framing of the key issues and debates involved, and rich illustrations through empirical case studies.... more...
The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
SAGE Publications 2007; US$ 150.00· · Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! · · 'In their introduction to this Handbook, the editors affirm: 'Many sociologists have come to realise that it makes no sense now to omit religion from the repertoire of social scientific explanations of social life'. I wholeheartedly agree. I also suggest that this wide-ranging set of... more...
Why and How Secular Society Should Accommodate Religion
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 139.95This study examines judiciary attempts to refine the neutrality worldview called for by the U.S. Constitution. more...
A Systems Theory of Religion
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 24.95A Systems Theory of Religion , still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology of religion. Religion, for Luhmann, is... more...









