Abstract: Introduction: Towards a More Organic Understanding of Religion within a Global Framework – Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion – The Uses of Max Weber: Legitimation and Amnesia in Buddhology, South Asian History, and Anthropological Practice theory – Max Weber: Religion and Modernization – Max Weber on Islam and Confucianism: The Kantian Theory of Secularization – Religion in the Works of Habermas, Bourdieu, and Foucault – Rational Choice Theory: A Critique – Religion and Gender – Religion and Modernity Worldwide – Postmodernism and Religion – Religion and Power – Culture and Religion – Methodology in the Sociology of Religion – Conceptual Models in the Study of Religion – Defining Religion: A Social Science Approach – A Critical View of Cognitive Science's Attempt to Explain Religion and its Development – Science and Religion – Atheism – Religion and Morality – The Contemporary Convergence of Art and Religion – The Social Roots and Meaning of Trance and Possession – Religion and the State – Religion and Nationalism – Religion and the Law: An Interactionist View – The Socio-Cultural and Socio-Religious Origins of Human Rights – Globalization, Theocratization, and Politicized Civil Religion – Religious Fundamentalism – Migration and the Globalization of Religion – Religious Diversity – Church-Sect—cult: Constructing Typologies of Religious Groups – Sects in Islam – Congregations: Local, Social, and Religious – The Sociology of the Clergy – The Meaning and Scope of Secularization – Generations and Religion – Religion and Family – The Reproduction and Transmission of Religion – Religion and Ritual: A Multi-Perspectival Approach – Religion and the Media – Religion and the Internet – New Religions as a Specialist Field of Study – Unchurched Spirituality – Spiritualities of Life – The Sociology of Esotericism – Implicit Religion – Religion and Ecology – Religion, Spirituality, and Health: An Institutional Approach – The Role of Religious Institutions in Responding to Crime and Delinquency – Religion and Altruism – Religious Violence – Girard, Religion, Violence, and Modern Martyrdom – Religion and Social Problems: A New Theoretical Perspective – Religion and Social Problem: Individual and Institutional Responses – The Teacher of Religion as Ethnographer – Ethnography/Religion: Explorations in Field and Classroom

Keywords: art, atheism, church, civil religion, clergy, collect, Confucianism, culture, ecology, family, fundamentalism, Islam, law, ritual, science and religion, sects, secularization, spiritual, violence, institution, religious, responses, spirit, spirituality