History, Time, Meaning, and Memory. (Religion and the Social Order)

viii, 267 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Preface : Traveling through time / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Introduction : history, time, meaning, and memory in the sociology of religion / Barbara Jones Denison -- Clio goes to church, again : places for history in the sociology of religion / Kevin J. Christiano -- The history of meaning / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Historical observation in the sociology of religion : a view from within the communicative networks of two scientific disciplines / Peter Beyer -- Past in the present : indigenous leadership and party politics among the Amasiri of Southeastern Nigeria / Elijah Obinna -- The development and major problems of religious legislation in Taiwan / Pen-Hsuan Lin -- Developing a historical sociology of nationalism and state secularization in Latin America / Jonathan Eastwood -- Religion and deviance : theocrats vs. democrats / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- On the processes and problematics of representing divinity : Dio Chrysostom (ca. 40-120) and the pragmatist motif / Robert Prus -- The genres of religious freedom : creating discourses on religion at the State Department / Rick Moore -- Afterword : what is history? / John H. Simpson. 'This volume addresses the conjoint problem of history and sociology. History has seen religion hold varied places within the timeline of the sociology of religion.The increase in world fundamentalisms, religious movements, private spiritualities and other indicators in the millennial age have today brought a renaissance to the field.'.…