About the Author | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Religious Life in the Global Village | p. 1 |
Religion and the Globalization of Social Life | p. 4 |
Religion and the Sociological Tradition | p. 6 |
Tools of the Trade | p. 9 |
Major Themes in the Sociology of Religion | p. 42 |
A Sociological Tour: Turning East | p. 45 |
Types of Religious Traditions | p. 47 |
Hinduism, or Sanatana Dharma | p. 53 |
Buddhism | p. 68 |
Religious Life in China and East Asia | p. 76 |
The Tour: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | p. 89 |
Judaism | p. 89 |
Christianity | p. 97 |
Islam | p. 106 |
Tribal Continuities in Judaism and Islam | p. 112 |
The Social Construction of Religious Traditions | p. 115 |
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life | p. 121 |
Indigenous Religions | p. 125 |
Indigenous Beliefs | p. 128 |
Indigenous Rituals | p. 136 |
Indigenous Institutions | p. 141 |
Indigenous Environmentalism | p. 142 |
The Religious Ethos | p. 145 |
Constructing a Religious Ethos | p. 145 |
Religion and Identity Construction | p. 149 |
Religion and Stratification | p. 158 |
Religious Taboo Lines and Ethical Systems | p. 164 |
Religion and Sexuality | p. 182 |
Religion and Politics | p. 191 |
The Ethos of the Global Village | p. 202 |
Modernism and Multiculturalism | p. 205 |
From Local to Cosmopolitan | p. 206 |
The Challenge of Modernism | p. 208 |
Historical Outcomes of the Modernist Crisis | p. 215 |
The Modernist Crisis and the Twenty-First Century | p. 221 |
The Crisis of Multiculturalism | p. 223 |
Religious Movements for a New Century | p. 245 |
Civil Religion and Nationalism | p. 245 |
Religious Syncretism and Alternative Religious Movements | p. 249 |
New Forms of Religiosity | p. 265 |
Women's Movements | p. 266 |
Environmental Movements | p. 274 |
Constructing and Reconstructing Religious Life | p. 276 |
Religion and Social Conflict | p. 279 |
A Theory of Religious Conflict | p. 281 |
Religion and the Problem of Violence | p. 283 |
Religious Contributions to Nonviolence | p. 291 |
Islam and Nonviolence | p. 300 |
Chaos or Community? | p. 311 |
Notes | p. 319 |
References | p. 323 |
Glossary/Index | p. 345 |
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