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Sociological Theory and the Question of Religion
List of Contributors
Religion in Sociology's Core Classics
Recent Developments in British Sociology of Religion
The Current Volume
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I. The State of the Art and Science of the Sociology of Religion
Thinking Sociologically about Religion: A Step Change in the Debate?
Evidence of Change
New Initiatives
New Questions
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What Sort of Social Theory Would Benefit the Sociology of Religion?
Introduction
The Nature of Social Theory
Theory in the Study of Religion
What Sort of Theory Should We Use?
Conclusion
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II. History and Religion
The Axial Age Religions: The Debate and its Legacy for Contemporary Sociology
Introduction: Classical Sociology of Religion
Karl Jaspers, Max Weber and the Axial Age
Weber, Universalism and China
Conclusion: A Future for the Sociology of Religion?
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Hope and Religion
Introduction
The Supernatural, Ritual and Uncertainty
The Hereafter and its Rewards
The Dialectic of the Popular and the Erudite
Latin America: The Dialectic Transcended in a Time of Both Religious Revival and Secularization
The Secularization of Religious Reason in Liberation Theology
The Dialectic Transcended: Beyond Popular Religion
Exchange in a Secularized Religious Setting
Ritual Promiscuity
Saying the Unsaid
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The Sacramental Mechanism: Religion and the Civilizing Process in Christian Western Europe with Particular Reference to the Peace of God Movement and its Aftermath
Religion and the Civilizing Process
The Civilizing Process
Pax Dei and its Reverberations
The Sacramental Mechanism and the Prohibition of Violence
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
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III. Religion and Modernity
Religion and Monetary Culture in the Sociology of Georg Simmel
Introduction
Money/Religion Complex
Money/Society Equation
Simmel's Concept of Religion
God as a Symbol of Society
Simmel and Durkheim
God/Money Equation
Mammonism
Capitalism as Religion
Acknowledgement
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Putting Baby Back in the Bath: Theorising Modernity for the Contemporary Sociology of Religion
The Problem at Hand
Modernity in the Dock
Multiple Modernities
Deproblematising Modernity
Putting Baby Back in the Bath
Conclusion
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IV. Ethnographies of Listening to Churches: aesthetics and rationality
Playing the Sensual Card in Churches: Studying the Aestheticization of Religion
Introduction
A Broad Perspective on the Aestheticization of Religion
Studying Multimodal Religion
Christmas Concerts: An Evocative Ritual
Aestheticization: The Social Context
Different Situations Call for Different Methodological Sensitivities
Brief Concluding Remarks
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Listening Subjects, Rationality and Modernity
Listening, Meaning and Modernity
Learning to Listen
Listening as the Practice of Rationality
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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V. Power, Gender and Discourse
Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Sociology of Religion
Critical Sociology of Religion and the Importance of Discourse
Understanding Discourse
Being Critical
The Embeddedness of Discourse
Critical Discourse Analysis in the Sociology of Religion
Opium of the People - and More
Religion as Legitimate Identity
The Discursive Dialectics of Secularisation
Conclusion
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Beyond Habitus: Researching Gender and Religion through the Ontology of Social Relations
Bourdieu and Gender
Feminist Critique of Masculine Domination
Beyond Structure and Agency: Critical Hermeneutics in the Study of Religion and Gender
Studying Religion and Gender with (and against) Bourdieu
Towards an Ontology of Social Relations in the Study of Gender and Religion
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