The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

The Handbook's 35 chapters are organized into eight sections: Theories and concepts; Methods of studying religion; Social forms and experiences of religion; Issues of power and control in religious organisations; Religion and politics; Individual religious behaviour in social context; Religion, self-identity and the life-course; Case studies from around the world. Each chapter establishes benchmarks for the state of sociological thinking about religion in the 21st century and provides a rich bibliography for pursuing its subject further. Overall, the Handbook stretches the field conceptually, methodologically, comparatively, and historically.