RELN2117 – Reading List, 2015, Sociology of Religion
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RELN2117 – Reading List, 2015, Sociology of Religion
Keys for texts: HU - High Use; EB - Ebook; RL - Library reading list; LC - Source via Library catalogue
Welcome!
The course has three main trajectories – thematic, definitional, theoretical.
Thematic: Each week we consider the range and intersection of these three themes in relation to significant social perspectives such as: shifts in religion and global change; religion, peace and violence; fundamentalisms; media and pop culture; ethnicity, migration and diaspora; society and environment; secularisation; body, sexuality and gender; Indigenous issues; sport as religion.
Definitional: Religions have been and continue to be divided into a number of religioscapes. Our discussions will cover such elements as: lived religion, dark green religion, implicit religion, civil religion, invisible religion, public religion, postmodern religion as well as aspects of secular practices which may be deemed religious, spiritual or secularly sacred.
Theoretical: Within Studies in Religion and Sociology of Religion particularly, we will engage with a number of relevant theorists in concert with the focused themes, e.g. Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Clifford Geertz, Zygmunt Bauman, Charles Taylor, Hans Joas, Bryan Turner, Nancy Ammerman, Robert Orsi, Linda Woodhead, Jurgen Habermas.
Please note:
If there are any changes in the lecture themes or additional readings, I will let you know via Blackboard (BB) announcements page. Please check there regularly.
Also check your UQ email account every day as there will be emails from various course lecturers to you and from the university.
If you have any queries, or if you need more assistance with referencing, research and finding additional references please get in touch: sylvie.shaw@uq.edu.au
Readings
If looking for a journal article or EBook chapter and find it long-winded to source, go to Lib Databases, find google scholar, cut and paste the author’s name or article/chapter title into the search slot, and the material should appear if UQ library has the article or book in the catalogue.
Week 1: Religion and Society
Required Readings
McGuire M.B. 2008. Lived religion: faith and practice in everyday life. Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press. Ch 1. EB
Turner B.S. 2014. Religion and contemporary sociological theories. Current Sociology 62, 6:771-788. RL
Additional readings - for interest and info.
Besecke K. 2001. Speaking of meaning in modernity: reflexive spirituality as a cultural resource. Sociology of Religion, Fall, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_3_62.
Harvey G. and G. Vincett. 2012. Alternate spiritualities: marginal and mainstream. In R. Catto and L. Woodhead, eds., Religion and change in modern Britain, 156-172. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. EB
Tacey D. 2006. Spirituality as a bridge to religion and faith. International Handbook of the Religious and Spiritual Dimensions in Education 1, 1. Dordrecht: London: Springer. EB
Wood M. 2010. The sociology of spirituality: reflections on a problematic endeavor. In B.S Turner, ed. The new Blackwell companion to the sociology of religion, 267–285. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. EB
Wuthnow R. 2003. Studying religion, making it sociological. In M. Dillon, ed., Handbook of the sociology of religion, 16-30. New York: Cambridge University Press. EB
Zuckerman P. 2003, Religion is socially learned. In Invitation to the sociology of religion, New York, Routledge. Ch 3, 47-60.
Things to do
Take the Pew Forum test on religious knowledge. http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us‐religious‐knowledge/
Read report from Pew Forum on test of religious knowledge. http://www.pewforum.org/U‐S‐ Religious‐Knowledge‐Survey
To watch
Faith-based religious education has no place in public schools - Debate
http://www.iq2oz.com/debates/faith-based-religious-education-has-no-place-in-public-schools/
Also check out other debates run by IQ2oz - http://www.iq2oz.com/debates
Week 2: Diversity pluralism and civil religion
Required Readings
Ammerman N.T. 2010. Challenges of pluralism: locating religion in a world of diversity. Social Compass. 57, 2: 154-167. RL
OR Dillon M. 2011. A sociological approach to questions about religious diversity. In C. Meister, ed., The Oxford handbook of religious diversity, 42-56. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. EB
AND Kabir N. 2009. The 2Rs – respect and responsibility. The case of Australian Muslim girls. Cosmopolitan Civil Society 1, 3: 52-67. RL
Additional readings
Bellah R. 1988. Civil religion in America. Daedalus 117, 3: 97-118. LC.
Berger P.,G. Davie, and E. Fokas. 2008. Religious America, secular Europe? In Religious America, secular Europe: theme and variations, Ch 1, 9-22. Aldershot UK, Burlington, VT: Ashgate. HU.
Chaves M. 2011. American religion: contemporary trends. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. See Chs 2, Diversity, 16-32; Ch 8, Polarization, 94-109. EB.
Grosby S. 2013. Max Weber, religion, and the disenchantment of the world. Society 50, 3: 301-310. LC
Meister C. ed., 2011. The Oxford handbook of religious diversity. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. EB.
Putnam R. and D. Campbell. 2010. Religious polarization and pluralism in America. In American Grace: How religion divides and unites us. New York: Simon & Schuster. Ch 1, 1-36. HU.
TO ORDER - Smith C. 2014. American Evangelicalism: embattled and thriving. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Re: Can pluralism actually encourage religious vitality?
Warf B. and P. Vincent. 2007. Religious diversity across the globe: a geographic exploration, Social and Cultural Geography 8, 4: 597-613. LC.
Things to do
Take the God test - http://www.thearda.com/whoisyourGod/thegodtest/
Images of God test - http://www.thearda.com/whoisyourGod/imagesofgod/
To watch
Reza Aslan.z 2013. Unity in diversity. TEDxConejo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLAzwgizd
Week 3: Youth matters!
Recommended Readings
Madge N., P.J. Hemming, and K. Stenson. 2014. Religion and everyday life. In Youth on religion: the development, negotiation and impact of faith and non-faith identity. New York: Routledge, Ch 6. EB
Pearce L.D. and M. Lundquist Denton. 2011. Profiles of religiosity in adolescence. InA faith of their own: stability and change in the religiosity of America's adolescents. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read Ch. 2. EB
Additional Readings
Hughes P., P. Suwanbubbha, and J. Chaisri. 2007. The nature of spirituality among young people in Australia and Thailand. Social Compass 55, 3: 359-372. LC.
Jung D., M. Juul Petersen, S. Lei Sparre. eds., 2014. Politics of modern Muslim subjectivities: Islam, youth, and social activism in the Middle East. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Ch 1. EB
King P.E. and R.W. Roeser. 2009. Religion and spirituality in adolescent development. In R.M. Lerner and L. Steinberg, eds., Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, 3rd edn. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Ch 13, 435-478. EB
Regnerus, MD. 2007. Forbidden fruit: sex and religion in the lives of American teenagers. Oxford; New York Oxford University Press. EB
Shepherd N.M. 2010. Religious socialisation and a reflexive habitus: Christian youth groups as sites for identity work. In S. Collins-Mayo and P. Dandelion, eds., Religion and youth. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, Ch.18, 149-155. EB
Smith C., R. Faris, M. Lundquist Denton, M. Regnerus. 2003. Adolescent subjective religiosity and attitudes of alienation toward religion: a research report, Sociology of Religion, http://www.jstor.org/view/10694404/ap060041/06a00080/0.
Smith C. and M. Lundquist Denton. 2005. Soul searching: the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. EB
Smith C. and P. Snell. 2009. Souls in transition: the religious and spiritual lives of emerging adults. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. EB
To watch
Diane Benscoter. How cults rewire the brain. TED talk.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ex_moonie_diane_benscoter_how_cults_think?language=en
Week 4: Social change & religious shifts: liquid religion
Required Readings
Eisenstadt S.N. 2000. Multiple modernities. Daedalus Winter, 129, 1: 1-29. RL
Cassanova J. 2006. Rethinking secularization: a global comparative perspective. The Hedgehog Review, Spring & Summer, 7-22. http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/archives/AfterSecularization/8.12CCasanova.pdf
Cragun R.T. 2015. Who are the “new atheists”? In L.G.Beamanand S. Tomlins, eds., Atheist identities: Boundaries of religious freedom. Regulating religion in diverse societies. Vol. 2, 195-211. EB
Additional Readings
Baker J.O. and B. Smith. 2009. None too simple: examining Issues of religious nonbelief and nonbelonging in the United States. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48, 4: 719‐733. LC
Bauman Z. 2000. Liquid modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press; Malden, MA: Blackwell. HU
Bouma G.D. 2007. Religious resurgence, conflict and the transformation of boundaries. In P. Beyer and L. Beaman, eds., Religion, globalization and culture. Leiden and Boston, Brill. EB
Bruce S. 2011. Describing secularization. In Secularization: in defence of an unfashionable theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. Ch 1, 1-23. EB
on order - Davie G. 2013. The sociology of religion: a critical agenda. Los Angeles: Sage. HU Read Ch 1 online, http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/66129_Davie_Chapter_1.pdf
Demerath N.J. III. 2007. Secularization and sacralization deconstructed and reconstructed. In Demerath N.J. III and J.A. Beckford, eds., The Sage handbook of the sociology of religion. Los Angeles, London: Sage. Ch 3, 57-81. EB
Ellingson S. 2009. Rise of the megachurches and changes in religious culture: Review article. Sociology Compass2: 1‐15. LC
Howell J. 2006. The new spiritualities East and West: colonial legacies and changing patterns of glocalisation. Australian Religion Studies Review 19, 1. LC
Kaufmann E., A. Goujon, and V. Skirbekk. 2012. The end of secularization in Europe?: a socio-demographic perspective. Sociology of Religion73, 1: 69-91. LC
Kong L. 2010. Global shifts, theoretical shifts. Changing geographies of religion. Progress in Human Geography 34, 1. LC
Phillips T. and H. Aarons. 2007. Choosing Buddhism in Australia: towards a traditional style of reflexive spiritual engagement. British Journal of Sociology, 56, 2: 215-232. LC.
To watch
Linda Woodhead, 2013, Most religious people are 'normal': Professor Linda Woodhead MBE at TEDxLancasterU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giv_XmOTr0w
Week 5: Globalization and religioscapes
Required Readings
Morgan G. and S. Poynting. eds., 2012. Global Islamophobia: Muslims and moral panic in the West.Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. EB
Toft M.D., D. Philpott, T.S. Shah. 2011. Behind the politics of religion. In God’s century: resurgent religion and global politics, 20-47. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. RL. Copy of book on HU
Additional Readings
Al-Natour R.J. 2014. The construction of Sydney’s 'Muslim ghettoes'. Contemporary Islam 9, 2: 131-147. LC
Bhargava R. 2012. How should states deal with deep religious diversity? In T.S. Shah, A. Stepan, and M. Duffy Toft, eds., Rethinking religion and world affairs. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. EB
Dunn K.M., N. Klocker, and T. Salabay. 2007. Contemporary racism and Islamaphobia in Australia: racializing religion. Ethnicities, 7, 4: 564–589. LC
Lechner F. 2003. Defining religion: a pluralistic approach for the global age. In A.L. Greil and D. R. Bromley, eds., Defining religion: investigating the boundaries between the sacred and secular. Amsterdam, JAI. 67-84. LC
Sharpe M. 2013. Name it and claim it: prosperity gospel and the global Pentecostal reformation. InHandbook of research on development and religion, 164-182. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. EB
Spickard J. 2007. Religion in global culture: new directions in an increasingly self-conscious world. In P. Beyer and L. Beaman, eds., Religion, globalization, culture. Leiden and Boston, Brill.
Winchester D. 2008. Embodying the faith. Religious practice and the making of a Muslim moral habitus. Social Forces 86, 4:1753-1780. LC
Take the Quiz
Yoda & Buddha: Who said what? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2PkWRQMs5WPctJb92vRBNjN/yoda-vs-buddha-quiz
To Watch
Diana Eck, 2009, Globalization & Religious Pluralism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0wDxV4vOqU
Week 6: Diaspora, migration & change in religions
Required Readings
Aechtner T. 2015.Health, wealth, and power in an African diaspora church in Canada. Palgrave Macmillan. Ch 1 & Ch 10. RL & HU
Bouma G.D. 2011. Islamophobia as a constraint to world peace: the case of Australia. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 22, 4: 433-441. RL
Additional Readings
Adogame A. 2013. African traditions in the study of religion, diaspora and gendered societies. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Pub. EB
Halafoff A. 2012. Buddhism in Australia: an emerging field of study. Journal of Global Buddhism 13: 9-25, http://www.globalbuddhism.org/13/halafoff12.pdf
Kasselstrand I. 2015. Nonbelievers in the Church: a study of cultural religion in Sweden. Sociology of Religion, doi: 10.1093/socrel/srv026. LC
Rane H., J. Ewart, J. Martinkus. eds., 2014. Media framing of the Muslim world: conflicts, crises and contexts. Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. EB
Rocha C. 2006. Two faces of God: religion and social class in the Brazilian diaspora in Sydney. In P.P. Kumar, ed., Religious pluralism in the diaspora, 147-160. Boston: Brill. Online via LC
Thomas G.M. 2007. The cultural and religious character of world society. In P. Beyer and L. Beaman. Religion, globalization and culture. Leiden: Brill. EB
Wilkinson M. 2012. Global Pentecostal movements: migration, mission, and public religion. Leiden: Brill. EB
To watch
Secularism in the Muslim diaspora, 2013, Seminar proceedings, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVpTfS5yEY
Week 7: Social dynamism: fundamentalism & resacralisation
Required readings
Britt B.M. 2010. Curses left and right: hate speech and biblical tradition. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78, 3: 633-661. RL
Schiffer S. and C. Wagner. 2011. Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - new enemies, old patterns. Race & Class 52, 3:77-84. RL
Additional readings
Bailey J.H. 2010. Fearing hate reexamining the media coverage of the Christian Identity Movement. Journal for the Study of Radicalism 4, 1: 55-74. LC.
Bauman Z. 1998. Postmodern religion? In P. Heelas, ed., Religion, modernity and postmodernity. 55-78. Oxford: Blackwell. HU
Bauman Z. and L. Donskis. 2013. Moral blindness. The loss of sensitivity in liquid modernity. Chichester: Polity Press. EB
Blee K. and K. Creasap. 2010. Conservative and right wing movements. Annual Review of Sociology 36: 269-286. LC
TO ORDER Craig Calhoun , Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. Habermas and religion.
hooks b. 1999. Beloved community: a world without racism. In M. Steger, ed., Violence and its alternatives: an interdisciplinary reader, 308-312. New York: St Martin's Press. Ch.32, HU
Hunsberger B. and L.M. Jackson. 2005. Religion, meaning, and prejudice, Journal of Social Issues, 61, 4: 807-826. LC
McGuire M.B. 2002. Conversion. In religion: the social context. London: Wadsworth.
Stark R. and R. Finke. 2000. Micro foundations of religion. In Acts of faith: explaining the human side of religion, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Ch 4, 83-113. LC
To watch
Kwame Anthony Appiah. Is religion good or bad. This is a trick question. TED talk.
http://www.ted.com/talks/kwame_anthony_appiah_is_religion_good_or_bad_this_is_a_trick_question
Week 8: Indigineity, religion & socio-political change
Bell R. 1992. A spirit life called country. Women-Church, 11, Spring. RL. (Short article for all)
Ogwang T., L. Cox, .J Saldanha. 2006. Paint on their lips. Paint-sniffers, good citizens and public space in Brisbane. Journal of Sociology 42, 4: 412-428. RL
White R. 2014. Indigenous young people and hyperincarceration in Australia. Youth Justice, doi: 10.1177/1473225414562293. RL
Additional readings
Betz E. 2014. Polynesian youth hip hop: intersubjectivity and Australia's multicultural audience. Ethnomusicology Forum 23, 2: 247-265. LC
Brooks C.M., M.D. Daschuk, and J. Poudrier. 2014. First Nations youth redefine resilience: listening to artistic productions of ‘Thug Life’ and hip-hop. Journal of Youth Studies 18,4: 706-725. LC
Fonda M.V. 2011. Are they like us, yet? Some thoughts on why religious freedom remains elusive for Aboriginals in North America. The International Indigenous Policy Journal 2, 4, http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol2/iss4/4
Kickett-Tucker C.S. 2011. Moorn (Black)? Djardak (White)? How come I don't fit in Mum? Exploring the racial identity of Australian Aboriginal children and youth. Health Sociology Review 18, 1: 119-136. LC
Marsh C. 2013. “Don't call me Eskimo”: representation, mythology and hip hop culture on Baffin Island. MUSICultures 36, https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/20248
Morgan G. 2012. Urban renewal and the creative underclass: Aboriginal youth subcultures in Sydney’s Redfern-Waterloo. Journal of Urban Affairs 24, 2: 207-222. LC
Povinelli E. 1995. Do rocks listen?: The cultural politics of apprehending Australian Aboriginal labor. American Anthropologist 97, 3: 505-518. LC.
McEwan A. and Tsey. 2009. The role of spirituality in the social and emotional wellbeing initiatives: the family wellbeing program at Yarrabah. Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, http://www.lowitja.org.au/files/crcah_docs/DP7_FINAL.pdf
Strang, V. 2005b. Knowing me, knowing you: Aboriginal and European concepts of nature as self and other. Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 9(1): 25-25. LC
To watch
ABC Four Corners, 2015, Remote hope. An unflinching portrait of Australia's remote Indigenous communities and their struggle to survive, http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/05/11/4231553.htm
Week 9: Public religion & the natural environment
Required Readings
Beyer P. 2011. Who shall speak for the environment? Translating religious, scientific, economic, and political regimes of power and knowledge in a globalized society. In H. Bedford-Strohm and C. Deane-Drummond, eds., Religion and ecology in the public sphere. London, New York: T&t Clark. Ch 1. EB
Gottleib R.S. 2006a. A greener faith: religious environmentalism and our planet's future. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. Ch. 1. EB
Habermas J. 2006. Religion in the public sphere. European Journal of Philosophy 14, 1: 1-25, https://www.sandiego.edu/pdf/pdf_library/habermaslecture031105_c939cceb2ab087bdfc6df291ec0fc3fa.pdf
Additional reading
Ayre, C. 2011. Water more than a symbol. In N. Habel and P. Trudinger. Eds., Water: A matter of life and death. Interface 14(1): 49-61. EB
Bedford-Strohm, H. and C. Deane-Drummond. Eds., 2011. Religion and ecology in the public sphere. London; New York: T&t Clark. EB
Cassanova, J. 2003. What is a public religion? In H. Heclo and W.M. MCClay, eds., Religion returns to the public square. Faith and policy in America, 111-139. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. HU
Gottlieb R.S. 2006b. The Oxford handbook of religion and environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. EB
Ghiloni A. and S. Shaw. 2013. 'Gumboot religion': Religious responses to an Australian natural disaster. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, Culture 7, 1. RL
Mikusiński, G., H.P. Possingham, and M. Blicharska. 2014. Biodiversity priority areas and religions- a global analysis of spatial overlap. Oryx 48, 1: 17-22. LC
Rolston, H. III. 2010. Saving creation: faith shaping environmental policy. Harvard Law and Policy Review 4: 121-148. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hrolston/HLPR-Saving-Creation.pdf
Shaw, S. 2012. ‘My God, it’s our river. Shouldn’t they preserve it? Without the river what else have we got?’ Concilium 5: 24-34. LC
Taylor, B. 2010. Dark green religion: nature spirituality and the planetary future. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. EB
To do
Seek out additional material on the Pope’s encyclical on the environment, June 18, 2015. There was a good coverage from news and magazines, e.g. Hale C.J. 2015. The 5 most important points of Pope Francis’s climate change encyclical, http://time.com/3925520/pope-francis-climate-change-encyclical)
Week 10: Labour Day holiday
Week 11: Shifting positions - body & embodiment in religion
Required Reading
Mellor P.A. and C. Shilling. 2010. Bodypedagogics and the religious habitus: A new direction for the sociological study of religion. Religion 40, 1: 27-38. RL
Humberstone B. 2011. Embodiment and social and environmental action in nature-based sport: spiritual spaces, Leisure Studies 30, 4: 495-512. RL
OR Gerber L. 2009. My body is a testimony: appearance, health, and sin in an Evangelical weight-loss program. Social Compass 56, 3: 405-418. RL
Additional reading
To order - Anderson M.L. 2011.Earthen vessels: why our bodiesmatter to our faith. Ch 1
Bobel C. and S. Kwan. eds.,2011. Embodied resistance: challenging the norms, breaking the rules. Nashville, TE: Vanderbilt University Press. EB
Gerber L. 2012. Fat Christians and fit elites: negotiating class and status in Evangelical Christian weight-loss culture American Quarterly 64, 1: 61-84. Also see Gerber 2015 on similar theme. LC
Inman M., E. Iceberg, and L. McKeel. 2014. Do religiousaffirmations, religiouscommitments, or general commitments mitigate the negative effects of exposure to thin ideals? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53, 1: 35-55. LC
Mesaros-Winckles C. 2010. TLC and the Fundamentalist Family: A Televised Quiverfull of Babies. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture22, 3:1-20. LC
Mussap A.J. 2009. Strength of faith and body image in Muslim and non-Muslim women. Mental Health, Religion & Culture 12, 2: 121-127. LC
Shilling C. and P.A. Mellor. 2011. Retheorising Emile Durkheim on society and religion: embodiment, intoxication and collective life. The Sociological Review 59, 1: 17-41. LC
Throsby K. 2013. ‘If I go in like a cranky sea lion, I come out like a smiling dolphin’: marathon swimming and the unexpected pleasures of being a body in water. Feminist Review 103, 5-22.
To watch
5 reasons being an Orthodox Rabbi compelled me to support gay marriage, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuly-yanklowitz/orthodox-rabbi-gay-marriage_b_4452154.html
Week 12: Sexuality, gender & religious expression
Required reading
Maddox M. 2013. “Rise Up Warrior Princess Daughters": Is Evangelical women's submission a mere fairy tale? Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 29, 1: 9-26. RL
OR Siraj A. 2014. “Men are hard … Women are soft”: Muslim men and the construction of masculine identity. In J. Gelfer, ed., Masculinities in a global era. International and Cultural Psychology 4: 101-116. RL
AND Adamczyk A. and C. Pitt. 2010. Shaping attitudes about homosexuality: The role of religion and cultural context. Social Science Research 38, 2: 338-351. RL
Additional Reading
Ellison C.G., A.M. Burdette, N.D. Glenn. 2010. Praying for Mr. Right? Religion, family background, and marital expectations among college women. Journal of Family Issues 32, 7: 906-931. LC
Ellingson S. and M.C. Green. 2013. Religion and sexuality in cross-cultural perspective. New York: Routledge.
JenkinsK. E. and G. Marti. Warrior chicks: Youthful aging in a postfeminist prosperity discourse. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52, 2: 241-256. LC
Sherkat D.E., 2002, Sexuality and religious commitment in the United States. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41, 2: 313-323. LC
Sherkat D.E., K.M. deVries, and S. Creek. 2010. Race, religion, and opposition to same‐sex marriage. Social Science Quarterly 91, 1: 80-98. LC
Sherkat D.E., M. Powell-Williams, G. Maddox and K.M. deVries. 2011. Religion, politics, and support for same-sex marriage in the United States, 1988–2008. Social Science Research 40, 1: 167–180. LC
Tranby E. and S.E. Zulkowski. 2012. Religion as Cultural Power: The Role of Religion in Influencing Americans' Symbolic Boundaries around Gender and Sexuality. Sociology Compass 6, 11: 870-882. LC
Whitehead A.L. 2012. Religious organizations and homosexuality: the acceptance of gays and lesbians in American congregations. Review of Religious Research 55, 2:297-317. LC
Wright E.R. 2014. Producing Christian docility: The female body in contemporary American evangelical dance. Dance, Movement & Spiritualities 1, 2: 295-310(16). LC
TO watch
Jaweed K. 2014. One-third Of millennials who left their religion did It because of anti-gay policies: Survey, The Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/millennials-gay-unaffiliated-church-religion_n_4856094.html
Week 13: Religion, peace & violence
Required Reading
Abu-Nimer M. 2013. Religion and peacebuiding. In R. Mac Ginty, ed., Routledge handbook of peacebuilding, 69-80. New York: Routledge. EB
Beck U. 2010. Tolerance and violence. Two faces of religion. In God of one's own. Cambridge: Polity Press, Ch 3, 47-92. To order please
Additional readings
Appleby R.S. 2015. Religious Violence: The Strong, the Weak, and the Pathological. In A. Omer, R.S. Appleby, and D. Little. The Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. New York: Oxford University Press. Ch 2. EB
Butterworth M. and K. Senkbell. 2015.Cross-cultural comparisons of religion as “character”: Football and soccer in the United States and Germany. Sociology of Sport, doi: 10.1177/1012690215588214, LC
Faimau G. 2015. The conflictual model of analysis in studies on the media representation of Islam and Muslims: a critical review. Sociology Compass 9, 5: 321-335. LC
Forney C.A. 2010. The holy trinity of American sports: civil religion in football, baseball, and basketball. Macon, GA : Mercer University Press. HU
Jennings G., D. Brown, A.C. Sparkes 2010. 'It can be a religion if you want': Wing Chun Kung Fu as a secular religion. Ethnography 11, 4: 533-557. LC
Juergensmeyer M., M. Kitts and M. Jerryson. 2013.The Oxford handbook of religion and violence. Oxford: Oxford University Press. EB
Muhovich N.J.and E. Gedde 2015. Violence against women in a multiethnic church. In AJ. Johnson, ed., Religion and men's violence against women, 301-317. New York: Springer Science+Business Media. EB
Murphy A.R. ed., The Blackwell companion to religion and violence. Malden: John Wiley & Sons. EB
Doc – Del - Kidd J. 2008.A new social movement: Sport for development and peace. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 11, 4: 370-380. LC
Schich L. 2015. Ritual, religion, and peacebuilding. In A. Omer, R.S. Appleby, and D. Little. The Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. New York: Oxford University Press. Ch 20. EB
