We will be examing contemporary sociologists of religion, considering how they relate to the classical schoalrs we’ve studied previously and how all of them can enhance our study of today’s society.
Key Words
In this chapter, I’d like you to make a chart with the following categories: Name, Date, Understanding of Society, and central theory of religion. You’ll then fill out the chart using the names below.
- Erving Goffman
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Michel Foucault
- Jürgen Habermas
- Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Anthony Giddens
- Edward Said
- Arlie Hochschild
- Patricia Hill Collins
Textbook Readings
Inger Furseth and Pål Repstad, “Religion in Contemporary Sociology and Cultural Analysis,” 65-104 in An Introduction to the Sociology of Religoin: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives, Second Edition. Routledge.
Arthur McCalla, “41. Why Do Some Christians Not Acknowledge Evolution? ” 155-158 in Religion in 5 Mintues. Equinox.
Judith Hoang, “42. Are Mormons Christian?” 159-161 in Religion in 5 Mintues. Equinox.
Sarah E. Dees, “67. What Do You Do When You Do Fieldwork in Religion?” 168-171 in Religion in 5 Mintues. Equinox.
Case Study
Oleg Kyselov and Catherine Wanner, “Celebrating Christmas as a political act: church calendrical reform in Ukraine,” Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne Des Slavistes 67.1-2 (2025) 254-465.
Datasets
“Operationalizing Concepts,” ARDA: The Association of Religion Data Archives.
