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List of contributors viii Acknowledgments xii Preface xiv Part I Classical and Contemporary Theory: Recycling, Continuity, Progress, or New Departures? Editorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular; the Sacred and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument 3 1 Personal Reflections in the Mirror of Halévy and Weber 23 David Martin 2 Salvation, Secularization, and De-moralization 39 Bryan Wilson 3 The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: A Cautionary Tale for the Sociology of Religion 52 Bernice Martin 4 Feminism and the Sociology of Religion: From Gender-blindness to Gendered Difference 67 Linda Woodhead 5 Melancholia, Utopia, and the Psychoanalysis of Dreams 85 Donald Capps 6 Georg Simmel: American Sociology Chooses the Stone the Builders Refused 105 Victoria Lee Erickson 7 Transformations of Society and the Sacred in Durkheim's Religious Sociology 120 Donald A. Nielsen 8 Classics in the Sociology of Religion: An Ambiguous Legacy 133 Roger O'Toole 9 Individualism, the Validation of Faith, and the Social Nature of Religion in Modernity 161 Danièle Hervieu-Léger 10 The Origins of Religion 176 Richard K. Fenn Part II Contemporary Trends in the Relation of Religion to Society Editorial Commentary: Whose Problem is it? The Question of Prediction versus Projection 197 11 Secularization Extended: From Religious "Myth" to Cultural Commonplace 211 Nicholas J. Demerath III 12 Social Movements as Free-floating Religious Phenomena 229 James A. Beckford 13 The Social Process of Secularization 249 Steve Bruce 14 Patterns of Religion in Western Europe: An Exceptional Case 264 Grace Davie 15 The Future of Religious Participation and Belief in Britain and Beyond 279 Robin Gill 16 Religion as Diffusion of Values. "Diffused Religion" in the Context of a Dominant Religious Institution: The Italian Case 292 Roberto Cipriani 17 Spirituality and Spiritual Practice 306 Robert Wuthnow 18 The Renaissance of Community Economic Development among African-American Churches in the 1990s 321 Katherine Day 19 Hell as a Residual Category: Possibilities Excluded from the Social System 336 Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte Part III The Sociology of Religion and Related Areas of Inquiry Editorial Commentary: Looking for the Boundaries of the Field: Social Anthropology, Theology, and Ethnography 363 20 Acting Ritually: Evidence from the Social Life of Chinese Rites 371 Catherine Bell 21 Moralizing Sermons, Then and Now 388 Thomas Luckmann 22 Health, Morality and Sacrifice: The Sociology of Disasters 404 Douglas J. Davies 23 Contemporary Social Theory as it Applies to the Understanding of Religion in Cross-cultural Perspective 418 Peter Beyer 24 The Return of Theology: Sociology's Distant Relative 432 Kieran Flanagan 25 Epilogue: Toward a Secular View of the Individual 445 Richard K. Fenn Index 469

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