Handbook for the Sociology of Religion Book

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgment
1	The Sociology of Religion in Late Modernity	3
2	Studying Religion, Making it Sociological	16
3	The Ritual Roots of Society and Culture	31
4	Social Forms of Religion and Religions in Contemporary Global Society	45
5	The Evolution of the Sociology of Religion: Theme and Variations	61
6	Demographic Methods for the Sociology of Religion	79
7	Church Attendance in the United States	85
8	The Dynamics of Religious Economies	96
9	Historicizing and Secularization Debate: An Agenda for Research	110
10	Escaping the Procrustean Bed: A Critical Analysis of the Study of Religious Organizations, 1930-2001	123
11	Religion and Spirituality: Toward an Integrated Analysis	137
12	Religious Socialization: Sources of Influence and Influences of Agency	151
13	In Rhetoric and Practice: Defining the "Good Family" in Local Congregations	164
14	Religiousness and Spirituality: Trajectories and Vital Involvement in Late Adulthood	179
15	Religion and Health: Depressive Symptoms and Mortality as Case Studies	190
16	Religious Identities and Religious Institutions	207
17	Religion and the New Immigrants	225
18	A Journey of the 'Straight Way" or the "Roundabout Path": Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel	240
19	Beyond the Synagogue Walls	261
20	Dis/location: Engaging Feminist Inquiry in the Sociology of Religion	276
21	Religion and Political Behavior	297
22	Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere: Organization, Ideology, and Activism	315
23	Mapping the Moral Order: Depicting the Terrain of Religious Conflict and Change	331
24	Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent	348
25	Religion and Violence: Social Processes in Comparative Perspective	359
26	Religion, Faith-Based Community Organizing, and the struggle for Justice	385
27	Latina Empowerment, Border Realities, and faith-based Organizations	400
28	"Worldly" or "Other Worldly"?: Activism in an Urban Religious District	412
	References	423
	Index	471