Religion and the Social Order

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Mapping Religion and Spirituality in a Postsecular World

Edited by Giuseppe Giordan, University of Padua, Italy, and Enzo Pace, University of Padua, Italy.

This volume offers eleven case studies of contemporary movements from around the world where religious, secular and spiritual dynamics interplay in the postmodern condition of the 21st century, as traditional and contemporary sources are combined in new and dynamic ways.

€91.00$118.00

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9789004215603

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How Prophecy Lives

Edited by Diana G. Tumminia, California State University (Sacramento), USA, and William H. Swatos, Jr., Baylor University, USA.

Occasioned by reflections on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Festinger et al.'s When Prophecy Fails, this book examines social scientific prophecy research in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular attention to the question of the dynamics that inspired people to ...

€108.00$140.00

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9789004210622

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History, Time, Meaning, and Memory.

Edited by Barbara Jones Denison

This volume addresses the conjoint problem of history and sociology. History has seen religion hold varied places within the timeline of the sociology of religion.The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have ...

€108.00$140.00

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9789004205970

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Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health

Edited by Anthony J. Blasi

This book seeks to involve recognized researchers in the social scientific study of health, medicine and religion, which has burgeoned across the past twenty years, toward more general theoretical development within the field, particularly with respect to the elderly and disadvantaged.

€108.00$140.00

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9789004187306

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Religion Crossing Boundaries

Edited by Afe Adogame and Jim Spickard

€127.00$165.00

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9789004178038

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Conversion in the Age of Pluralism

Edited by Giuseppe Giordan, University of Padua

This book's chapters assess the nature of conversion and present data on specific convertion types, experiences, and theories including such topics as heroes, semiotics, new towns, pilgrimages, the New Age, relations among Catholics, Afro-Brazilians, and Protestants in Brazil, re-conversionist ...

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9789004170155

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Religion and Diversity in Canada

Edited by Lori G. Beaman and Peter Beyer

Multiculturalism, diversity and globalization have become important conceptual identity markers in Canadian society. This book explores the intersections of diversity, foregrounding religion as the primary focus of analysis. While situated in the Canadian context, the analyses have global relevance.

€95.00$123.00

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9789004168268

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North American Buddhists in Social Context

Edited by Paul David Numrich

The first multi-author collection of social scientific scholarship on North American Buddhists, this volume examines the current state of research and key aspects of Buddhist life and experience in social context. Case studies feature Southeast Asian, Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, ...

€93.00$120.00

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9789004161948

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Vocation and Social Context

Edited by Giuseppe Giordan

Illustrating the different ways in which Weber's category of Beruf can be interpreted, and how it can be studied from various perspectives and with different methods, this book demonstrates how "vocation" continues to be a fertile concept for contemporary sociology.

€107.00$139.00

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9789004161153

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American Sociology of Religion

Edited by Anthony J. Blasi

First ever collection of histories of American sociology of religion, including accounts of early dissertations changes in theory, and studies of denominations, globalization, feminism, new religions and Latino/a American religion.