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Thinking Through Statistics: Exploring
Quantitative Sociology, 2005. By Jim Spickard (with the
assistance of Janaki Spickard-Keeler |
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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
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 Jim 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.
For a sample
chapter in PDF format, click
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Religion: The Social Context,
5th edition, 2001. By Meredith B. McGuire. Recently reissued by
Waveland Press.
(See also a web page of
teaching
materials for use with this text.) |
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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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Health, Illness, and the Social Body,
4th edition, 2003. By Peter S. Freund, Meredith B. McGuire, and Linda Podhurst.
(See also a web page of teaching
materials for use with this text.) |
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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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World History by the World's Historians,
1998. Edited by Paul Spickard, Jim Spickard and Kevin Cragg |
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Buy from McGraw-Hill |
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 is 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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Ritual Healing in Suburban America, 1988. By Meredith B. McGuire.
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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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Pentecostal Catholics: Power, Charisma, and Order in
a Religious Movement, 1981. By
Meredith B. McGuire. |
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(Out of print.
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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. |
