Sociology of Religion articles

Recent articles from Sociology of Religion

Poor teenagers' religion *.(Report)
June 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION While questions about the relationship between social class and religion are as old as the field of sociology, sociologists have paid little attention to the effects of poverty on American religion in the last few decades. Influential European sociologists, such as Marx,...

Analyzing race in Asian American congregations *.(Report)
June 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION There has been steady growth in the last two decades in the social scientific literature examining contemporary Asian American religious communities. While much of this literature has relied on theoretical models based on European American experiences, scholars such as Rudy...

An investigation of the sociological patterns of prayer frequency and content *.(Report)
June 22, 2008... It would be difficult to overstate the importance of prayer to religion, for it is "belief and ritual at the same time" (Mauss 2003:22) and "to religion what thinking is to philosophy" (the poet Novalis as quoted in Heiler 1932:viii). Although prayer represents a fundamental aspect of...

How denominational resources influence debate about homosexuality in mainline protestant congregations *.(Report)
June 22, 2008... Leaders and members of mainline Protestant denominations have been arguing about homosexuality for the past thirty years. While each mainline denomination has tried to settle conflicts and reach tenable compromises regarding homosexuality, the issue remains a centrally contentious, and some...

Transnational religious connections *.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... Scholars increasingly observe that religion in the United States cannot be understood by considering only the United States. This observation has arisen from several rather disparate lines of inquiry: theoretical arguments about globalization, studies of immigrant congregations, surveys about...