In this article, I review three contemporary streams of scholarship that are revitalizing the
cultural analysis of religion, an approach that dates to the discipline's founding. Research …

Over the last three decades, fruitful new lines of research and theorizing have revealed the
inadequacy of secularization and rational choice explanations of religion. This article argues …

This address is a contribution to the study of “lived religion,” that is, the embodied and
enacted forms of spirituality that occur in everyday life. Like the children's books that ask …

While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still
plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of …

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the sociology of religion enjoyed a remarkable
growth in both theory and empirical research. The scholarly consensus argues that the early …

How do we learn to be religious? To make sense of this process should we emphasise the
habitual reinforcement of bodily rituals? Or the active role of individuals in making decisions …

Chaplains in healthcare increasingly work in interfaith roles with patients and families from a
range of religious and spiritual backgrounds. Some move with ease between their own …

This article discusses critical discourse analysis CDA) as a framework for a critical agenda in
the sociology of religion. CDA uniquely brings together discursive and critical (broadly …

The influence of religion on work has not been fully explored, and, in particular, the
relationship between religion and entrepreneurship as a specific type of work. This study …

This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity, Christian religious
privilege, and Christian hegemony in the United States. It meets a growing and urgent need …