Religion in a Changing World: Comparative Studies in Sociology

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• PART I - INDIVIDUAL RELIGION, CHOICE, AND IDENTITY 1
• PART I - INDIVIDUAL RELIGION, CHOICE, AND IDENTITY 3
• REFERENCES 9
• 2 - The "Return" to Traditional Judaism in the United States, Russia, and Israel: The Impact of Minority and Majority Status on Religious Conversion Processes 11
• NOTES 18
• REFERENCES 18
• 3 - From West Africa to Brooklyn: Yoruba Religion among African Americans 21
• NOTES 27
• NOTES 27
• 4 - Identity Reconstruction and Empowerment of South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand 29
• REFERENCES 37
• 5 - Religious Views of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers in the United States 47
• 6 - Gender and Jewish Identity among Twenty-Somethings in the United States 49
• NOTE 56
• REFERENCES 56
• 7 - Canadian Evangelical Church Women and Responses to Family Violence 57
• REFERENCES 64
• PART II - RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION 67
• 8 - The Inverted Norm: The Formation and Functioning of Racially Mixed Christian Congregations in South Africa 69
• INTRODUCTION 69
• NOTES 77
• REFERENCES 77
• 9 - The Variety of Hindu Priests and Assistants: A Brief Introduction 79
• REFERENCES 86
• 10 - Catholic Deacons: A Lesson in Role conflict and Ambiguity 89
• NOTES 97
• REFERENCES 97
• 11 - Attitudes to Women's Ordination in Protestant Congregations in the United States, Britain, and Australia 99
• REFERENCES 107
• 12 - Latinos and Latinas in the Catholic Church: Cohesion and Conflict 116
• REFERENCES 117
• REFERENCES 117
• 13 - Mission Churches and Church-Sect Theory: Seventh-day Adventists in Africa 119
• REFERENCES 127
• 14 Russia's Religious Market: Struggling with the Heritage of Russian Orthodox Monopoly 129
• REFERENCES 136
• 15 - The Raelians Are Coming!: The Future of a UFO Religion 139
• NOTES 146
• REFERENCES 146
• PART III - RELIGION, POLITICAL ORDER, AND SOCIAL CHANGE 147
• REFERENCE 148
• 16 - Religions and Regimes in China 149
• REFERENCES 156
• 17 - Diversities and Discontinuities in the Islamic Response to Modernity 164
• REFERENCES 165
• 18 - The Sanctified Church and the Color Line: Reorganization, Social Change, and the African American Religious Experience 167
• REFERENCES 174
• 19 - Beating Back the Enemy: How Venezuelan Pentecostals Think about Social Change 177
• CONCLUSION 183
• NOTES 183
• NOTES 184
• 20 - Religion and Social Activism: The Grassroots Catholic Church in Brazil 185
• NOTES 192
• REFERENCES 192
• 21 - Pragmatism and Its Discontents: The. Evolution of the Christian Right in the United States 193
• REFERENCES 200
• 22 - New Religions in Australia: Cultural Diffusion in Action 211
• 23 - The Earth Is Sacred: Ecological Concerns in American Wicca 213
• NOTES 220
• REFERENCES 220
• Suggestions for Further Reading 221
• Index 225
• About the Contributors 231

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