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100	1		_aAldridge, Alan _q(Alan E.) _eauthor. _9502698
245	1	0	_aReligion in the contemporary world : _ba sociological introduction / _cAlan Aldridge.
264		1	_aCambridge, UK : _bPolity Press, _c2006.
264		4	_c©2000
300			_avii, 232 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aReligion - worth our continued attention? -- Reductionism : explaining religion away -- Sociography : sociology at the service of religion -- Phenomenology : apprehending religious meaning -- Sociology as a value-neutral science -- Carrying the sociological tradition forward -- Scientology : authentic religion or imposture? -- Baha'is : world faith or apostasy? -- Advantages of being recognized as a religion -- Disadvantages of status as a religion -- Max Weber : on not defining religion -- Emile Durkheim : defining religion sociologically -- Contemporary sociological definitions of religion -- Religion and definition in use -- Max Weber on church and sect -- From sect to church? -- Beyond church and sect : extending the typology -- Varieties of new religious movement -- The social location of new religious movements -- Classifying religious movements : aims and prospects -- Auguste Comte and the Law of Three Stages -- Karl Marx and the opium of the people -- Emile Durkheim and the social functions of religion -- Max Weber and the disenchantment of the world -- Bryan Wilson on rationalization and societalization -- Peter Berger on religion and plausibility -- American exceptionalism -- Contemporary challenges to the secularization thesis -- The new voluntarism : an emerging paradigm? -- Voluntarism according to Talcott Parsons -- Rational choice theory and religion -- The supply side : religious firms and resource mobilization -- The Mormons : a new world faith? -- Jehovah's Witnesses : a model for growth? -- The nature of fundamentalism -- Islam in the west -- Secularization and religious revival -- Ritual and social integration : the legacy of Durkheim -- In God we trust : civil religion in the United States -- Happy and glorious : the British monarchy -- Symbolic division in society : the case of Canada -- Symbolic division in society : the case of Northern Ireland -- Creating new symbols : the French revolutionary calendar -- Political religion : the Soviet Union -- Political religion : Nazi Germany -- Character and society -- Brainwashing - old and new -- The power of the brainwashing metaphor -- What new religious movements offer their recruits -- Disengaging from new religious movements -- Consumer protection and the regulation of abuses -- Cult scares and the anti-cult movement -- Doomsday cults : five case studies -- Apocalypse, charismatic leadership and self-destruction -- Religion and the consumer -- Consumerism repudiated : the Prayer Book Society -- Consumerism embraces : Soka Gakkai International -- Authority and individualism : the Roman Catholic Church -- Religion, sex and gender -- Religion and New Age spirituality -- The future of religion.
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