BRYAN S. TURNER is the Presidential Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mellon Committee for the Study of Religion, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and Director of the Institute for Religion Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). He was the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor at Wellesley College (2009-10). His most recent publications are Religion and Modern Society (Cambridge 2011) and The Religious and the Political (Cambridge 2013). With Oscar Salemink, he edited the Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia (2014). He is the founding editor with John O'Neill of the Journal of Classical Sociology (Sage) and with Irfan Ahmad the Journal of Religious and Political Practice (Routledge). He received the Max Planck Award in 2015 for research on secularization and modernity: social and religious pluralism, and is a Guest Professor at the University of Potsdam.

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Mapping the Sociology of Religion 1
Bryan S. Turner Part I The Foundations 31 1 The Sociology of Religion: The Foundations 33
Andrew McKinnon 2 Durkheim and After: Religion, Culture, and Politics 52
William Ramp 3 The Functional Theory of Religion 76
Victor Lidz 4 Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Religion 103
Simon Coleman Part II From Secularization to Resacralization 123 5 Secularization 125
Steve Bruce 6 American Exceptionalism? 141
John Torpey 7 Resacralization 160Grace Davie Part III New Developments 179 8 Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion 181David Lehmann 9 The Religious Habitus: Embodiment, Religion, and Sociological Theory 201
Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling 10 Women, Religions, and Feminisms 221Fang-Long Shih Part IV Institutionalization: Old and New Forms 245 11 New Research on Megachurches: Non-denominationalism and Sectarianism 247
Stephen Ellingson 12 The Sociology of Spirituality: Reflections on a Problematic Endeavor 267
Matthew Wood 13 Arguing against Darwinism: Religion, Science, and Public Morality 286Michael S. Evans and John H. Evans Part V Sociology of Comparative Religions 309 14 The Sociology of Early Christianity: From History to Theory, and Back Again 311
Joseph M. Bryant 15 Judaism: Covenant, Pluralism, and Piety 340
Alan Mittleman 16 Sociology and Anthropology of Islam: A Critical Debate 364
Gabriele Marranci 17 Approaches to the Study of Buddhism 388
Catherine Newell 18 Sociology of Hinduism 407
Pratap Kumar Penumala 19 Religious Awakening in China under Communist Rule: A Political Economy Approach 431
Fenggang Yang 20 Native American Religious Traditions: A Sociological Approach 456Dennis F. Kelley Part VI Globalization 475 21 Globalization and the Sociology of Religion 477
Lionel Obadia 22 Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in a Global Perspective 498
Afe Adogame 23 Fundamentalism 519
Richard T. Antoun 24 Religion, Media, and Globalization 544
Jeremy Stolow 25 Toward a Sociology of Religious Commodification 563
Pattana Kitiarsa 26 Women and Piety Movements 584
Rachel Rinaldo 27 Religion and Nationalism: A Critical Re-examination 606
Geneviève Zubrzycki Part VII The Future of Religion 627 28 The Future of Religion 629
Andrew Wernick 29 Religion in a Post-secular Society 649Bryan S. Turner Index 668