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• About the Author
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Religious Life in the Global Village
• Religion and the Globalization of Social Life
• Religion and the Sociological Tradition
• Tools of the Trade
• Three Pillars of Analysis: Beliefs, Rituals, and Institutions
• Major Themes in the Sociology of Religion
• 2. A Sociological Tour: Turning East
• Types of Religious Traditions
• Hinduism, or Sanatana Dharma
• Buddhism
• Sikhism
• Religious Life in China and East Asia
• 3. The Tour: Western Religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
• Prolegomena: The Ancient Greeks
• Judaism
• Christianity
• Islam
• Kinship Network Continuities in Judaism and Islam
• The Social Construction of Religious Traditions
• The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
• 4. Indigenous Religions
• Indigenous Beliefs
• Indigenous Rituals
• Indigenous Institutions
• Indigenous Environmentalism
• 5. The Religious Ethos
• Constructing a Religious Ethos
• Religion and Identity Construction
• Religion and Stratification
• Religious Taboo Lines and Ethical Systems
• Religion and Sexuality
• Religion and Politics
• The Ethos of the Global Village
• 6. Modernism and Multiculturalism
• From Local to Cosmopolitan
• The Challenge of Modernism
• Historical Outcomes of the Modernist Crisis
• The Modernist Crisis and the 21st Century
• The Crisis of Multiculturalism
• 7. Religious Movements for a New Century
• Civil Religion and Nationalism
• Religious Syncretism and Alternative Religious Movements
• New Forms of Religiosity
• Women’s Movements
• Religious Environmental Movements
• Constructing and Reconstructing Religious Life
• 8. Religion and Social Conflict
• A Theory of Religious Conflict
• Religion and the Problem of Violence
• Religious Contributions to Nonviolence
• Islam and Nonviolence
• Chaos or Community?
• Notes
• References
• Glossary/Index