Much has changed since publication of the first edition of this established text in the sociology of religion. Revised and expanded, this edition emphasizes new patterns of religious change and conflict emerging in the United States in the latter part of the twentieth century. Leading scholars describe and analyze developments in five main areas: The fundamentalist and evangelical revival; challenge and renewal in mainline churches; spiritual innovation and the so-called New Age; women's movements and issues and their impact; and politics and civil religion.
Chapters include an examination of religious movements' responses to AIDS; Christian schools; quasi-religions; healing rites and goddess worship; recruitment of women to charismatic and Hassidic groups,; televangelists and the Christian Right; racist rural populism; contemporary Mormonism and its growth; cults and brainwashing; Jonestown; dissidence in the Catholic church; and trance-channeling, among other topics.
A new introductory chapter by the editors establishes an integrating framework in terms of three themes: increasing conflict and controversy associated with American religion; increasing focus on various forms of power in American religion; and challenges to models of secularization and modernization inherent in religious revival, innovation, and politicization. A concluding chapter by the editors looks at new trends and assesses their possible impact in coming years.
Like its predecessor, this outstanding collection is a significant contribution to the literature as well as a valuable resource for the classroom.
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Thomas Robbins received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina. He has taught at or held research appointments at numerous universities. His publications include Cults, Converts, and Charisma, and Church-State Relations.
“Like the first edition, published in 1981, this collection brings together some of the best contemporary scholarship on recent developments in the sociology of religion. Both editions purport to examine new patterns of religious pluralism in America, and both have done a good job.... This is a very strong and coherent collection bringing together works that speak to one another.”
—William H. Norman, Sociologist Analysis
“This collection is a solid contribution to the sociology of religion, accomplishing several important tasks for the scholarly reader.... The book offers significant contributions to theoretical development in the sociology of religion.... It should be studied by all who want an exciting and informed linkage of studies of new and exotic religious phenomena with classical and sociological theory.”
—James T. Richardson, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
“A useful addition to the field of sociology and to the sociology of religion, deviance, and social change. Sociologists of religion can take pride in this volume.”
—Social Forces
“The collaboration of Thomas Robbins, a sociologist, and Dick Anthony, a psychologist, resulted in a significant text on many facets of the religious cults that have appeared recently on the American scene. . . . The book, basically a reader, consists of eighteen articles by twenty-two contributors that are organized in five sections. . . . This is a good, comprehensive reader. . . . Many of the articles utilize a variety of research methods resulting in the distillation of statistical data. Other good features include a comprehensive bibliography, abundant annotation, and adequate identification of the individual authors. . . . Robbins and Anthony have structured a meaningful text that provides a deeper understanding of cults. It is a useful addition to the field of sociology and particularly to the study of sociology of religion, deviance, and social problems.”
—Martin E. Danzig, Contemporary Sociology
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