- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 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 Problems: Individual and Institutional Responses
- The Teacher of Religion as Ethnographer
- Ethnography/Religion Explorations in Field and Classroom
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article notes that the study of religion in general, and not just the sociology of religion, often tends to be slower than other branches of the social sciences and humanities to take up and test new sociological thinking and theory. This slowness is evident in relation to feminist and gender theory, which had already become a meta-critical tool in the social sciences and humanities before the study of religion sought to engage with it. As to the future, the discussion suggests a move away from universalist pretensions of the study of religion and a greater readiness on the part of gender-critical approaches to the study of religion to engage in more constructive dialogue with post-colonialist theory.
Keywords: social sciences, gender theory, feminist theory, post-colonialist theory
Sîan Hawthorne is Lecturer in Critical Theory and the Study of Religions and Chair of the Centre for Gender and Religions Research at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
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- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 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 Problems: Individual and Institutional Responses
- The Teacher of Religion as Ethnographer
- Ethnography/Religion Explorations in Field and Classroom
- Index