Handbook of Religion And Social Institutions

by Ebaugh, Helen Rose Fuchs

• ISBN13: 9780387257037
• ISBN10: 0387257039
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-15
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

In the past, there has been an intellectual bias in social theory against the compatibility of rationality and religion-one had nothing to do with the other and they were incompatible as areas of study. Sociology, itself a product of the Enlightenment, has a long tradition of skepticism toward religion. Many social scientists have shyed away from incorporating religious variables in their research because the very act of studying religion might be interpreted as legitimating religious belief, which again, would be against the very nature of science.

Table of Contents

Religion and Social Institutions
Politics and Social Movements	1	(20)
Darren E. Sherkat
Economy	21	(20)
Larry Iannaccone
Education	41	(26)
David Sikkink
Jonathan Hill
Social Welfare	67	(30)
Ram A. Cnaan
Charlene C. McGrew
Family and Life Cycle
Family	97	(24)
W. Bradford Wilcox
Adolescence	121	(18)
Peter L. Benson
Pamela Ebstyne King
Aging	139	(24)
Neal Krause
Religion and Inequality
Race/Ethnicity	163	(22)
John P. Bartkowski
Todd L. Matthews
Social Class	185	(22)
James D. Davidson
Ralph E. Pyle
Gender	207	(20)
Nancy Nason-Clark
Barbara Fisher-Townsend
Religion and Social Control
Law	227	(14)
James T. Richardson
Crime/Deviance	241	(24)
John P. Hoffmann
Stephen J. Bahr
Adolescent Delinquency	265	(20)
Mark D. Regnerus
Religion and Culture
Sport	285	(20)
James A. Mathisen
Media	305	(16)
Stewart M. Hoover
Technology	321	(14)
William A. Stahl
Religion as a Social Institution
Church Membership in America: Trends and Explanations	335	(18)
Roger Finke
Denominationalism/Congregationalism	353	(20)
Nancy T. Ammerman
Religious Leadership/Clergy	373	(18)
Dean R. Hoge
Religion and Social Institutions in a Global/Transnational Perspective
Immigration	391	(20)
Peggy Levitt
Globalization	411	(20)
Peter Beyer
Index	431