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| Series Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| What is Religion? | |
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| Essay: "Tilting at Windmills: Defining and Predicting Religion" | |
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| Readings: | |
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| Defining Religion | |
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| Asad, Talal. 1993. "The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category." From Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam, 27-54. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press | |
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| McGuire, Meredith B. 2008. "Contested Meanings and Definitional Boundaries: Historicizing the Sociology of Religion." From Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life, 19-44. New York: Oxford University Press | |
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| Imagining Religion's Future | |
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| Berger, Peter L. 1967. Selections from The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, 106-111, 125-128. Garden City: Doubleday | |
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| Warner, R. Stephen. 1993. Selections from "Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States." American Journal of Sociology 98(5): 1044-1046, 1074-1093 | |
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| Berger, Peter L. 1999. "The Desecularization of the World:' A Global Overview." In The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, ed. Peter L. Berger, 1-18. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans | |
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| Bruce, Steve. 2001. "The Curious Case of the Unnecessary Recantation: Berger and Secularization." In Peter Berger and the Study of Religion, ed. Linda Woodhead, 87-100. New York: Routledge | |
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| Heelas, Paul and Linda Woodhead. 2005. Selections from "Bringing the Sacred to Life: Explaining Sacralization and Secularization." From The Spiritual Revolution: Wiry Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality, 77-82, 94-110,123-128. London: Blackwell | |
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| Religion and Social Institutions | |
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| Essay: "Religion, State, and Nation" | |
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| Religion, State, and Law | |
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| Ashiwa, Yoshiko. 2009. "Positioning Religion in Modernity: State and Buddhism in China." In Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China, ed. Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank, 43-70 | |
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| Hann, Chris and Mathijs Pelkmans. 2009. "Realigning Religion and Power in Central Asia: Islam, Nation-State and (Post)Socialism." Europe-Asia Studies 61(9): 1517-1541 | |
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| Religion and the Nation | |
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| Bellah, Robert N. 1967. "Civil Religion in America." Daedalus 96(1): 1-21 | |
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| Long, Charles H. 1995. "Civil Rights-Civil Religion: Visible People and Invisible People." From Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion, 161-168, 170. Aurora: The Davies Group | |
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| Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2008. "The Militant Christian Right in the United States." From Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda, 182-192. Berkeley: University of California Press | |
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| Skya, Walter A. 2009. Selections from Japan's Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism, 297-328. Durham: Duke University Press | |
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| Religion and Social Power | |
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| Essay: "Religion, Oppression, and Resistance" | |
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| Theorizing Religion and Power | |
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| Marx, Karl. [1844] 1986. Introduction to the Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law. Reprinted in Karl Marx: A Reader, ed. Jon Elster, 301-302. New York: Cambridge University Press | |
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| Du Bois, W.E.B. [1903] 1995. "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" and "Of the Faith of the Fathers." From The Souls of Black Folk, ed. Randal Kenan, 43-53, 210-225. New York: Signet Classics | |
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| Medina, Lara. 2006. "Nepantla Spirituality: Negotiating Multiple Religious Identities among U.S. Latinas." In Rethinking Latino(a) Religion and Identity, ed. Miguel A. de la Torre and Gast�n Espinosa, 248-266. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press | |
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| Enacting Religion and Power | |
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| McCarthy Brown, Karen. 1991. Selections from Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, 109-133. Berkeley: University of California Press | |
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| Mahmood, Saba. 2005. "Agency, Gender, and Embodiment." From Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, 153-188. Princeton: Princeton University Press | |
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| Yip, Andrew K.T. 2005. "Queering Religious Texts: An Exploration of British Non-heterosexual Christians' and Muslims' Strategy of Constructing Sexuality-affirming Hermeneutics." Sociology 39(1): 47-65 | |
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| Dzmura, Noach. 2010. "Intersexed Bodies in Mishnah: A Translation and an Activist's Reading of Mishnah Androgynos" and "An Ancient Strategy for Managing Gender Ambiguity." In Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in the Jewish Community, ed. Noach Dzmura, 163-166, 170-181. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books | |
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| Religion and Social Movements | |
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| Essay: "Changing Religions, Changing Worlds" | |
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| Religion in Social Movements | |
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| Jeung, Russell. 2007. "Faith-Based, Multiethnic Tenant Organizing: The Oak Park Story." In Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, ed. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, 59-73. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press | |
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| Campbell, David C. and Carin Robinson. 2007. "Religious Coalitions for and Against Gay Marriage: The Culture War Rages On." In The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage, ed. Craig A. Rimmerman and Clyde Wilcox, 131-154. Chicago: University of Chicago Press | |
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| Smith, Lisa Ann and Lori G. Beaman. 2010. "Displacing Religion, Disarming Law: Situating Quaker Spirituality in the 'Trident Three' Case." Social Compass 57(4): 503-520 | |
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| Religions as Social Movements | |
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| Shaffir, William. 1995. "When Prophecy is Not Validated: Explaining the Unexpected in a Messianic Campaign." The Jewish Journal of Sociology 37(2): 119-136 | |
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| Urban, Hugh B. 2006. "The Age of Satan: Satanic Sex and the Black Mass, from Fantasy to Reality." From Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism, 191-221. Berkeley: University of California Press | |
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| Religion, Local and Global | |
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| Essay: "Local and Global: Blurring the Boundaries" | |
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| Religion, Immigration, and Transnationalism | |
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| Levitt, Peggy. 2007. "A New Religious Architecture." From God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape, 113-135. New York: The New Press | |
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| Redstone Akresh, liana. 2011. "Immigrants' Religious Participation in the United States." Ethnic and Racial Studies 34(4): 643-661 | |
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| Bendixsen, Synn�ve. 2010. "Islam as a New Urban Identity? Young Female Muslims Creating a Religious Youth Culture in Berlin." In Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration, ed. Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Vivienne S.M. Angeles, 95-114. New York: Lexington Books | |
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| Religion and Violence, Local and Global | |
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| Nason-Clark, Nancy. 2009. "Christianity and the Experience of Domestic Violence: What Does Faith Have to Do with It?" Social Work and Christianity 36(4): 379-393 | |
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| Jacobs, Janet. 2011. "The Cross-Generational Transmission of Trauma: Ritual and Emotion among Survivors of the Holocaust." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40(3): 342-361 | |
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| Wessinger, Catherine L. 2000. "How the Millennium Comes Violently." From How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate, 12-29. New York: Seven Bridges | |
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| King, Richard. 2007. "The Association of 'Religion' with Violence: Reflections on a Modern Trope." In Religion and Violence in South Asia: Theory and Practice, ed. John R. Hinnells and Richard King, 226-257. New York: Routledge | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Credits | |
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| Glossary Index | |