02990cam a2200277 a 450000100060000000300080000600500170001400800410003101000170007202000280008902000350011703500110015204000180016305000220018108200140020324501030021726000390032030000330035944000540039250400510044650518940049752002360239165000280262765000310265570000260268679670BJBSDDR20230410142315.0980320s1998 ctua b 001 0 eng  a 98015658  a0275960781 (alk. paper) a027596079X (pbk. : alk. paper) a725384 aDLCcDLCdDLC00aBL 60 bR382 199800a306.622100aReligion in a changing world :bcomparative studies in sociology /cedited by Madeleine Cousineau. aWestport, Conn. :bPraeger,c1998. axv, 235 p. :bill. ;c25 cm. 0aReligion in the age of transformation,x1087-2388 aIncludes bibliographical references and index. aSwitching 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. aIn 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 0aReligion and sociology. 4aReligión y sociología.1 aCousineau, Madeleine.