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| About Ourselves | |
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| About the Book | |
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| The Basics | |
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| By Way of Introduction | |
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| Background | |
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| The Definition Problem | |
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| Exploring the Dimensions of Religion | |
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| Social Relationships | |
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| Ethical Considerations | |
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| A Definitional Revision | |
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| The Plan of the Book | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Studying Religion | |
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| How Do We Study Religion? | |
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| Survey Research | |
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| Participant Observation | |
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| Historical Research | |
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| Theory in the Study of Religion | |
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| Functionalist Theories | |
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| Conflict Theories | |
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| A Paradigm Shift | |
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| Rational Choice Theories | |
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| Sociologie Religieuse | |
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| Why Study Religion? | |
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| Implicit Religion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The "Religion" of Secularization and the History of Religions | |
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| The "World" of Religion | |
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| The Arguments | |
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| The Critique | |
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| The "Religions" of Secularization | |
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| Civil Religion | |
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| Invisible Religion | |
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| The Myth of the Age of Faith | |
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| Pluralism | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Religion in the United States: Denominationalism and Beyond | |
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| Churches and Sects | |
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| Weber's Sociology and Troeltsch's Ethics | |
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| Elaboration, Reaction, and Revision | |
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| Neo-Weberian Analyses | |
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| Denominationalism | |
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| Typology | |
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| Denominations Today | |
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| Congregationalism | |
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| American Religious Renewal | |
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| Mainlines and Sidelines in Religion in the United States | |
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| Evangelicals and Fundamentalists: Alike and Different | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Religion and Social Differentiation | |
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| Social Class, Religion, and Power: A Classic Field of Inquiry | |
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| Sociological Classics | |
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| Marx: The Permanent Exile and Prophet | |
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| Weber: Theodicy, Religious Ethics, and Social Class | |
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| Religion and the U.S. Class Structure | |
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| U.S. Classes and Religion in the Industrial Age: 1870-1970 | |
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| The Class/Religion Nexus in a Postindustrial Society | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Religion and Ethnicity: A Complex Relationship | |
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| Clarifying Terms: Ethnic, Nationality, and Racial Groups | |
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| Defining Ethnic Groups | |
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| Nationality Groups and Territoriality | |
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| The Specter of Race | |
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| Relational Patterns between Religion and Ethnicity | |
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| Ethnicity in the "Righteous Empire" | |
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| The Ethnic Factor in the Formative Period of U.S. Catholicism | |
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| The Jewish Diaspora | |
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| Herberg's Thesis and the Triple Melting Pot | |
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| The African-American Religious Experience | |
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| From Different Shores: The New Immigrants | |
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| The New Ethnics as Protestants, Catholics, and Jews | |
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| Beyond Protestant, Catholic, Jew | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Gender, Sexuality, and Religion: Spirituality in Different Voices? | |
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| The Ordination Debate | |
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| Women in Clerical and Lay Roles | |
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| Culture Wars: Gender, Religion, and Family Values | |
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| Abortion and the Politics of the Body | |
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| Family Matters | |
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| Gays, Lesbians, and Religion | |
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| Images of God and Gendered Spirituality | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Religion, Culture, and Change | |
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| Religious Change: The Case of Catholicism in the United States | |
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| Church with a Capital C | |
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| Change: From Breeze to Tornado | |
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| Commitment: Loyalty, but Not Obedience | |
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| Devotion: A Collapse of Authority | |
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| Governance: Guiding the People of God | |
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| Leadership: Failures at the Top | |
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| Membership: Problems in the Pews | |
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| African-American Catholics | |
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| Hispanic Catholics | |
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| Women in the Church | |
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| Personnel: People without Priests | |
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| Finances: Expanding Mission, Declining Resources | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Globalization Dynamic: Historic Animosities or Postmodern Politics? | |
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| Global Culture | |
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| Excursus on the History of Religions | |
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| Globalization and Fundamentalisms | |
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| The Religious Right in the United States | |
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| Islamization | |
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| Fundamentalism, Globalization, and American Civil Religion | |
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| Ultraorthodoxy | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Mediating Meaning: Religion in-and as-Contemporary Culture | |
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| Mass Faith: The Media of Religion | |
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| Religion in Material Culture: Faith in the Flesh | |
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| Religious Publishing: Words and The Word | |
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| "That Old-Time Religion": Broadcast Faith in the United States | |
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| "In the Beginning..." | |
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| The Message: "His Master's Voice"? | |
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| The Messengers: The Return of Elmer Gantry? | |
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| The Audience: Preaching to the Converted? | |
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| Cyber-Faith: Religion on the Internet | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Boundary Issues: Church, State, and New Religions | |
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| Religious Novelty | |
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| Cult and Anticult: Social Science and Social Movements | |
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| Asceticism and Mysticism | |
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| The Attraction of the Margin | |
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| Illustrations of NRM Dynamics | |
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| Unificationism | |
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| "Satanism" and Anti-Satanism | |
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| Neopaganism: Of Gods and Goddesses | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |