Sociology of Religion in America A History of a Secular Fascination with Religion by Anthony J. Blasi (University of Texas at San Antonio) http://www.brill.com/products/book/sociology-religion-america Sociology of Religion in America tells the story of the controversies involved in the development of … Continue reading →

Gülen: The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World Joshua D. Hendrick New York University Press September 2013 http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=11498 “In a groundbreaking study, Joshua Hendrick provides us with the first comprehensive and dispassionate analysis of the worldwide … Continue reading →

American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer Juliane Hammer University of Texas Press August 2013 http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/6893-american-muslim-women-religious-authority-and-activism.html “Juliane Hammer traces recent conversations around gender and religion within American Muslim communities…. The author examines how questions of gendered … Continue reading →

Global Religious Movements Across Borders: Sacred Service Edited by Stephen M. Cherry and Helen Rose Ebaugh Ashgate, 2014 Series : Ashgate Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409456872 From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through … Continue reading →

Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism At Home and in the World Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée Cambridge University Press, 2014 http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/middle-east-government-politics-and-policy/islam-democracy-and-cosmopolitanism-home-and-world This book presents a critical study of citizenship, state, and globalization in societies that have been historically influenced by … Continue reading →

"Le protestantisme évangélique à l’épreuve des cultures" (coordonné par Yannick Fer & Gwendoline Malogne-fer), Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. Anthropologie critique, dec. 2013. http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=42166 Short presentation : Le discours évangélique tend à dissocier l’individu de sa culture d’origine, en mettant l’accent sur … Continue reading →

Jennings, Mark Exaltation Ecstatic Experience in Pentecostalism and Popular Music Bern 2013. 250 pp. Paperback ISBN 978-3-0343-1348-3 CHF 77.00 / €* 68.60 / €** 70.60 / € 64.15 / £ 51.00 / US-$ 83.95 Details Based on two richly described … Continue reading →

Quand le religieux fait conflit. Désaccords, négociations ou arrangements Edited by Anne-Sophie Lamine (Professor of sociology, Université de Strasbourg), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 23 janvier 2014, 240 p., 16 € This book offers an original, groundbreaking and analytical view … Continue reading →

Religions as Brands New Perspectives on the Marketization of Religion and Spirituality Edited by Jean-Claude Usunier and Jörg Stolz, both at Université de Lausanne, Switzerland During the twentieth century, religion has gone on the market place. Churches and religious groups … Continue reading →

Announcing a New Book The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies by James L. Cox, University of Edinburgh. Published by Acumen Publishing, Durham, England (www.acumenpublishing.com). From the Back Cover of the book: Indigenous societies around the world have been historically … Continue reading →