Studying religion and society sociological self-portraits / [electronic resource] : edited by Titus Hjelm and Phil Zuckerman. - New York : Routledge, 2013. - xi, 209 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : on sociological self-reflection / Titus Hjelm and Phil Zuckerman -- A life in religious communities / Nancy Ammerman -- Stranger in a strange land / William Sims Bainbridge -- Doing sociology : confessions of a professional stranger / Eileen Barker -- Constructing religion : serendipity and skepticism / James a. Beckford -- Straddling boundaries : disciplines, theories, methods, and continents / Peter Beyer -- Work and adventure: from poetry to sociology of religion / Irena Borowik -- Unintended consequences biographical and sociological / Steve Bruce -- Serendipity in the study of religion and society / Mark Chaves -- Thinking sociologically about religion : discerning and explaining pattern / Grace Davie -- Hurdling over borders : reflections on my intellectual trajectory / Karel Dobbelaere -- Counting and accounting for worldviews : doing surveys and social research on four continents -- Barry Kosmin -- My specific form of disorientation / Robert Orsi -- Engaged faith; my own and of those I study / Wade Clark Roof -- Studying Protestantism in a Catholic and secular context : lessons for a comparative sociology of religion / Jean-Paul Willaime -- Side roads and detours : a narrative reconstruction about studying religion / Robert Wuthnow.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780203075685 (electronic bk.)




Religion and sociology--Study and teaching.


Electronic books.

BL60 / .S833 2013

306.6071