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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I Mapping the field
• Chapter 1 What is a sociology of religion?
• Inventing sociology
• Materialism and the social
• From material to meaning
• Durkheim and the social collective
• The function of religion
• Notes
• Indicative reading
• Chapter 2 How do we know what we know?
• Introduction
• Religion is ‘man’ made
• Questioning the questioner
• Sociology of religion and ethnography
• Asking questions
• Surveys
• Ethics and method
• Note
• Indicative reading
• Chapter 3 The contemporary religious landscape: Retreat, reinvention and resurgence
• Introduction
• Retreat
• Reinvention
• New religious movements
• Resurgence
• Notes
• Indicative reading
• Part II Religion and its publics
• Chapter 4 Politics and religion
• Introduction
• Locating the study of politics and religion
• At stake is the state: sharing the load
• Religion and nationalism
• Religion and politics by census
• Notes
• Indicative reading
• Chapter 5 Violence and crime
• Introduction
• Defining religious violence
• Religious genocide
• Religious terrorism
• Suicide bombing
• Religious response to crime
• Creating the criminal subject
• Note
• Indicative reading
• Chapter 6 Policing religion: Religious equality, social justice and the law
• Introduction
• What are ‘human rights’?
• The public, the private: are human rights sacred?
• The role of the state in human rights
• Human rights and religion: case examples
• Right to education
• Right to work with religious beliefs
• Courts compared: the ECHR and Supreme Court (USA)
• The right to rights
• ‘Rights’ and the conservative/liberal divide
• Note
• Indicative reading
• Part III Contested borders
• Chapter 7 Gender and sexuality
• Introduction
• The body in the sociology of religion
• Defying definition
• On power
• Adapting and resisting
• Saving and surrendering ‘self’
• Note
• Indicative reading
• Chapter 8 Generations
• ‘Generation’: a contested concept
• Age and alcohol
• Age and voting
• Age and marriage
• Age and military service
• Age and religious change
• The ‘baby-boomer’ effect
• Young people retaining and reviving religion
• Religion, youth and politics
• Notes
• Indicative reading
• Chapter 9 ‘Race’, ethnicity, social class
• Introduction
• ‘Race’
• From ‘race’ to ethnicity
• Explaining racism
• Identity politics
• Social class
• Note
• Indicative reading
• Part IV Is nothing, or everything, sacred?
• Chapter 10 Religion and media
• Religion, media and changing times
• Media and the role of the state
• Digital religious spaces
• Indicative reading
• Chapter 11 Disease, disability and the religious response
• Introduction
• The religious ‘problem’
• Multiple healing agents
• Care versus cure
• Miraculous healing
• Religion, disability and stigma
• Notes
• Indicative reading
• Chapter 12 Future religion: Nones and beyond
• Introduction
• Noting the ‘nones’
• Everyday ghosts: a ‘secular’, social, sensuous supernatural
• Spiritual but not religious?
• Notes
• Indicative reading
• Index