Studying religion and society
Subtitle: sociological self-portraits
By: edited by Titus Hjelm and Phil Zuckerman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780415667975; 9780415667982; 9780203075685
Subjects: Study and teaching; Religion and sociology
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : on sociological self-reflection / Titus Hjelm and Phil Zuckerman; title: A life in religious communities / Nancy Ammerman; title: Stranger in a strange land / William Sims Bainbridge; title: Doing sociology : confessions of a professional stranger / Eileen Barker; title: Constructing religion : serendipity and skepticism / James a. Beckford; title: Straddling boundaries : disciplines, theories, methods, and continents / Peter Beyer; title: Work and adventure: from poetry to sociology of religion / Irena Borowik; title: Unintended consequences biographical and sociological / Steve Bruce; title: Serendipity in the study of religion and society / Mark Chaves; title: Thinking sociologically about religion : discerning and explaining pattern / Grace Davie; title: Hurdling over borders : reflections on my intellectual trajectory / Karel Dobbelaere; title: Counting and accounting for worldviews : doing surveys and social research on four continents; title: Barry Kosmin; title: My specific form of disorientation / Robert Orsi; title: Engaged faith; my own and of those I study / Wade Clark Roof; title: Studying Protestantism in a Catholic and secular context : lessons for a comparative sociology of religion / Jean-Paul Willaime; title: Side roads and detours : a narrative reconstruction about studying religion / Robert Wuthnow.