William A. Mirola, Michael O. Emerson, Susanne C Monahan

Religion Matters (eBook, ePUB)

How Sociology Helps Us Understand Religion in Our World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of Religion Matters focuses on religion's interplay with broader society, introducing students to the basic questions, ideas, and methods with which sociologists have analyzed the relationship between religion and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000707168
• Artikelnr.: 65888539

Autorenporträt

William A. Mirola is former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Marian University in Indianapolis, IN. His publications include Redeeming Time: Protestantism and the Eight-Hour Movement in Chicago; Religion and Class in America; and Sociology of Religion: A Reader.

Michael O. Emerson is Professor and Department Head of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago. He studies religion, race, and the many intersections of these. He is the author of 15 books and over 100 other publications.

Sue Monahan is Associate Provost and Professor of Sociology at Western Oregon University. She is co-editor of Sociology of Religion: A Reader and has published articles and reviews in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Review of Religious Research, Sociology of Religion and Contemporary Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why religion? 2. "You Believe What?" 3. Downloading God, "Big-Box"
Churches, and the Crystal Shop Around the Corner 4. Can't We All Just Get
Along? 5. News Flash: God's Not Dead (an Neither is the Goddess!) 6. God is
on Our Side and They are Idiots 7. Giving Divine Right to Kings While Also
Casting Down the Mighty 8. What are God's Pronouns? 9. Adam, Eve, and Steve
10. Blessed are the Meek, Woe to the Rich, but What about those Classes
In-between? 11. The (Not So Great) Color Wall of the United States (Isaiah
G. Jeong and Tryce D. Prince) 12. Who Brought the Enchiladas to my Bat
Mitzvah? 13. End of days? Religion Meets Climate Change 14. Do we need god
to do good?