Religion in a Changing World: Comparative Studies in Sociology

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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. The faith traditions include Judaism, Roman Catholicism, evangelical and mainstream Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, Yuruba religion, Chinese religion and three different new religious movements, including a UFO cult in Quebec.

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The book would serve well as a supplementary reader to a textbook-based undergraduate course. Each essay is brief and clearly written, coming quickly to nuance conclusion.-Choice
"The book would serve well as a supplementary reader to a textbook-based undergraduate course. Each essay is brief and clearly written, coming quickly to nuance conclusion."-Choice

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MADELEINE COUSINEAU is Professor of Sociology at Mount Ida College and a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her research has focused mainly on religion and social change in Latin America. She is the author of Promised Land: Base Christian Communities and the Struggle for the Amazon and Opting for the Poor: Brazilian Catholicism in Transition as well as articles and book chapters. She has served on the executive councils of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association.