Religion in a changing world : comparative studies in sociology /
edited by Madeleine Cousineau.
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
- xv, 235 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Religion in the age of transformation, 1087-2388 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Switching in American religion : denominations, markets, and paradigms? -- The "return" to traditional Judaism in the United States, Russia, and Israel : the impact of minority and majority status on religious conversion processes -- From West Africa to Brooklyn : Yoruba religion among African Americans -- Identity reconstruction and empowerment of south Asian immigrant women in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- Religious views of mainline Protestant baby boomers in the United States -- Gender and Jewish identity among twenty-somethings in the United States -- Canadian evangelical church women and responses to family violence -- The inverted norm : the formation and functioning of racially mixed Christian congregations in South Africa -- The variety of Hindu priests and assistants : a brief introduction -- Catholic deacons : a lesson in role conflict and ambiguity -- Attitudes to women's ordination in Protestant congregations in the United States, Britain, and Australia -- Latinos and Latinas in the Catholic church : cohesion and conflict -- Mission churches and church-sect theory : Seventh-day Adventists in Africa -- Russia's religious market : struggling with the heritage of Russian Orthodox monopoly -- The Raelians are coming! : the future of a UFO religion -- Religions and regimes in China -- Diversities and discontinuities in the Islamic response to modernity -- The sanctified church and the color line : reorganization, social change, and the African American religious experience -- Beating back the enemy : how Venezuelan Pentecostals think about social change -- Religion and social activism : the grassroots Catholic church in Brazil -- Pragmatism and its discontents : the evolution of the Christian right in the United States -- New religions in Australia : cultural diffusion in action -- The earth is sacred : ecological concerns in American Wicca.
In this text, scholars from the field of the sociology of religion examine a variety of faith traditions, countries and sociological topics that illustrate the connection between religion and society at the dawn of the 21st century