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Buy from E. J. Brill |
This collection of essays explores the recent growth of
transnational religious networks that connect African peoples with each
other and with other parts of the world. Topics include: the
transnational spread of new African Christianity, transnational
Pentecostalism, religion’s role in transnational migration, tri- and
multi-national religious trade networks, and the consequences of having
transnational religious connections for Africa itself. Volume 18 in the Association for the
Sociology of Religion’s Religion and Social Order series.
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Buy from Oxford University Press |
In this book, Meredith
McGuire points the way to a new way of understanding and studying
religious behavior. Rather than try to fit people into pre-arranged
packages, she argues, scholars must begin to study religion as it is
actually lived and experienced in people's everyday lives. Drawing on her
own extensive fieldwork, as well as recent work by other scholars, McGuire
explores the many ways that people express themselves spiritually and shows
that they rarely fit neatly into the categories we've developed. Challenging
those who see declining church attendance as the death of religion in the
Western world, McGuire demonstrates that religion is as widespread, potent,
and vital as ever, if you know where to look. |
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Buy from Toroverde Press |
Most statistics books bury you in math. This one
starts with "Why Bother?" Through concrete examples, it shows how to
identify the data you need, how to organize that data for analysis, how
to choose the right statistical routine, and how to interpret the results.
Together with the its companion
Sociological
Insights Software (download
here),
Thinking Through Statistics leads you step by
step through the process of statistical reasoning. |
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Personal Knowledge
and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography
of Religion, 2002.
Edited by James V. Spickard, Shawn Landres, and Meredith B. McGuire |
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Buy from NYU Press |
This collection probes
the transformation of anthropological practice that has taken place in
recent years — especially as it applies to the study of religion.
Deliberately diverse, provocative and boundary-breaking, its contributors
seek new tools for understanding religion in the contemporary world.
Chapters cover such topics as fieldwork among contemporary witches, the
personal impact of family violence on the researcher, and the
epistemological problems of studying religion in a post-colonial era.
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Buy from Waveland |
This text presents a theory-based, integrated approach to religion's place
in society. Purposefully selective rather than encyclopedically descriptive, the text looks at religion in the
context of many cultures. Each chapter is organized according to important theoretical issues, such cohesion and conflict. |
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Buy from Prentice-Hall |
This text presents a critical, holistic interpretation of health, illness and
human bodies that emphasizes power as a key social-structural factor in health and in societal responses to illness.
It does not attempt to cover every relevant topic in Medical Sociology, but is organized as a set of core essays
around which to build a course. |
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Out of Print
Buy used from ABE Books,
Powell's,
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Amazon |
This collection presents some of the finest historical writing ever produced:
by historians from all parts of the globe, and from 3000 years ago to the present day. Designed to accompany college
courses in World History and in Historiography, it
was the first reader to bring non-Western historians into the
canon. It includes biographies of and sample passages from 56 historians chosen for their excellence and their
diversity. |
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Buy from Rutgers |
This book describes the beliefs and practices of over 100 ritual healing groups,
all within a 25 mile radius of Montclair, New Jersey. It shows how ordinary Americans have incorporated religious
rituals as part of their search for healing, often alongside standard medical techniques. It shows how these rituals
help people make sense of both their illnesses and their lives. |
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Out of Print
Buy used from ABE Books,
Powell's,
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Amazon |
This book
describes the social and ideological world of Charismatic
Catholics in the late 1970s. Now out of print, it was one of the
first books to examine this fascinating religious movement. It
is still one of the few books to place the movement in a broader
social context. |
