Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2008, 44(3): 557-578 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2008.44.3.06

Three European Sociologies of Religion: Beyond the Usual Agenda of the Discipline

Zdeněk R. Nešpor
Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague

Published: June 1, 2008  Show citation

ACS AIP APA ASA Harvard Chicago Chicago Notes IEEE ISO690 MLA NLM Turabian Vancouver
Nešpor, Z.R. (2008). Three European Sociologies of Religion: Beyond the Usual Agenda of the Discipline. Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 44(3), 557-578. doi: 10.13060/00380288.2008.44.3.06
Share...
Download citation
  • BibTeX (.bib)
  • Bookends (.ris)
  • EasyBib (.ris)
  • EndNote (.enw)
  • EndNote 8 (.xml)
  • ISI WoS (.isi)
  • Medlars (.medlars)
  • Mendeley (.ris)
  • MODS (.xml)
  • Papers (.ris)
  • RefWorks (.txt)
  • RefManager (.ris)
  • RIS (.ris)
  • MS Word (.xml)
  • Zotero (.ris)
    • Open full article

    References

    1. Ammerman, Nancy T. (ed.). 2007. Everyday Religion. Observing Modern Religious Lives. Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press.
    2. Barker, Eileen V. 1984. The Making of a Moonie. Brainwashing or Choice? Oxford: Blackwell.
    3. Beck, Ulrich, Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash (eds.). 1994. Reflexive Modernization. Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Cambridge: Polity Press.
    4. Beckford, James A. 1989. Religion and Advanced Industrial Society. London: Routledge.
    5. Beckford, James A. 1994. 'Final Reflections.' Pp. 160-167 in Religion in Contemporary Europe, edited by J. Fulton and Peter Gee. Lewiston: E. Mellen.
    6. Beckford, James A. 2003. Social Theory and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to original source...
    7. Bellah, Robert N. 1967. 'Civil Religion in America.' Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Science 96: 1-21.
    8. Berger, Peter L. 1967. The Sacred Canopy. Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. New York: Doubleday.
    9. Berger, Peter L. (ed.). 1999. The Desecularization of the World. Resurgent Religion and World Politics. Washington - Grand Rapids: EPPC + Eerdmans.
    10. Bowie, Fiona. 2000. The Anthropology of Religion. Malden - Oxford: Blackwell.
    11. Boulard, Fernand and Jean Rémy. 1968. Pratique religieuse urbaine et régions culturelles. Paris: Éd. Ouvrières.
    12. Bruce, Steve. 1999. Choice and Religion. A Critique of Rational Choice Theory. Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press.
    13. Bruce, Steve. 2002. God Is Dead. Secularization in the West. Oxford: B. Blackwell.
    14. Byrnes, Timothy A. 2006. 'Transnational Religion and Europeanization.' Pp. 283-305 in Religion in an Expanding Europe, edited by Timothy A. Byrnes and Peter J. Katzenstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to original source...
    15. Casanova, José. 2004. 'Der Ort der Religion im säkularen Europa.' Transit, Europäische Revue 27: 86-106.
    16. Chidester, David. 2005. Authentic Fakes. Religion and American Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. Go to original source...
    17. Chistiano, Kevin J., William H. Swatos and Peter Kivisto. 2001. Sociology of Religion. Contemporary Development. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
    18. Cipriani, Roberto. 2000. Sociology of Religion. An Historical Introduction. New York: De Gruyter.
    19. Davie, Grace. 1994. Religion in Britain since 1945. Believing without Belonging. Oxford: B. Blackwell.
    20. Davie, Grace. 2000. Religion in Modern Europe. A Memory Mutates. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Go to original source...
    21. Davie, Grace. 2002. Europe: The Exceptional Case. Parameters of Faith in the Modern World. Darton: Longman - Todd.
    22. Deal, William E. and Timothy K. Beal. 2004. Theory for Religious Studies. New York - London: Routledge. Go to original source...
    23. Desroche, Henri. 1955. Les Shakers américains. D'un néo-christianisme à un pré-socialisme. Paris: Éd. de Minuit.
    24. Desroche, Henri. 1962. Marxisme et religions. Paris: PUF.
    25. Eck, Diana L. 2001. A New Religious America. How a 'Christian Country' Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. San Francisco: Harper.
    26. Eisenstadt, Shmuel N. 1999. Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution. The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Go to original source...
    27. Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and Self Identity. Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Cambridge: Polity Press
    28. Gill, Robin. 2003. The 'Empty' Church Revisited. Avebury: Ashgate.
    29. Göle, Nilüfer. 2006. 'Islam, European Public Space and Civility.' Pp. 122-130 in Conditions of European Solidarity II. Religion in the New Europe, edited by Krzysztof Michalski. Budapest - New York: Central European University Press.
    30. Gorski, Philip S. 2000. 'Historicizing the Secularization Debate. Church, State, and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ca. 1300 to 1700.' American Sociological Review 65: 138-167. Go to original source...
    31. Grung, Anne Hege and Lena Larsen. 2000. Dialog med og uten slør. (Dialogue with and without the Veil) Oslo: Pax Vorlag.
    32. Hann, Chris (ed.). 2006. The Postsocialist Religious Question. Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe. Monster: Lit.
    33. Hardgrove, Barbara. 1989. The Sociology of Religion. Classical and Contemporary Approaches. Arlington Heights: H. Davidson.
    34. Heelas, Paul. 1996. The New Age Movements. The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity. Oxford: Blackwell.
    35. Heelas, Paul and Linda Woodhead (with Benjamin Seel, Bronislaw Szerszynski and Karin Tusting). 2005. The Spiritual Revolution. Why Religion Is Giving Way to Spirituality. Oxford: Blackwell.
    36. Hervieu-Léger, Danièle. 1993. La Réligion pour mémoire. Paris: CERF.
    37. Hervieu-Léger, Danièle. 1999. Le Pélerin et le converti. La Religion en mouvement. Paris: Flammarion.
    38. Hervieu-Léger, Danièle. 2001. La religion en miettes, ou la question des sectes. Paris: Calmann-Lévy.
    39. Niebuhr, H. Richard. 1929. The Social Sources of Denominationalism. New York: H. Holt.
    40. Holm, Nils G. 2002. Religionspsykologins Grunder. (Essentials of the Psychology of Religion) Åbo: Åbo Akademi.
    41. Houtart, Francçois and André Rousseau. 1972. The Church and Revolution. From the French Revolution of 1789 to the Paris Riots of 1968, from Cuba to Southern Africa, from Vietnam to Latin America. Maryknoll: Orbis Books.
    42. Hunt, Stephen. 2005. Religion and Everyday Life. London - New York: Routledge.
    43. Jenkins, Richard. 2002. Pierre Bourdieu. A Critical Introduction. London - New York: Routledge.
    44. Johnstone, Ronald L. 2004. Religion in Society. A Sociology of Religion. Upper Saddle River: Pearson.
    45. Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2003. Terror in the Mind of God. The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkeley: University of California Press.
    46. Kadlecová, Erika. 1972. 'Czechoslovakia.' Pp. 117-134 in Western Religion. A Country by Country Sociological Inquiry, edited by Hans Mol. Hague - Paris: Mouton.
    47. Laermans, Rudi and Gert Verschraegen. 2001. '"The Late Niklas Luhmann" on Religion. An Overview.' Social Compass 48 (1): 7-20. Go to original source...
    48. Le Bras, Gabriel. 1955-56. Études de sociologie religieuse I-II. Paris: PUF.
    49. Lehmann, David. 2002. 'Religion and the Globalization.' Pp. 299-315 in Religions in the Modern World. Traditions and Transformations, edited by Linda Woodhead (in association with Paul Fletcher, Hiroko Kawanami and David Smith). London: Routledge.
    50. Lehmann, Hartmut and Jean Martin Ouédraogo (eds.). 2003. Max Webers Religionssoziologie in interkultureller Perspektive. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
    51. Levitt, Peggy. 2007. God Needs No Passport. Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. New York - London: New Press.
    52. Lipset, Seymour M. 1996. Amarican Exceptionalism. New York: W. W. Norton.
    53. Luckmann, Thomas. 1963. Das Problem der Religion in der modernen Gesellschaft. Freiburg: Rombach.
    54. Luhmann, Niklas. 1977. Funktion der Religion. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
    55. Luhmann, Niklas. 2000. Die Religion der Gesellschaft. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
    56. Lužný, Dušan. 1997. Nová náboženská hnutí. (New Religious Movements) Brno: MU.
    57. Lužný, Dušan. 2000. Zelení bódhisattvové. Sociálně a ekologicky angažovaný buddhismus. (Green Bodhisattvas. Socially and Ecologically Engaged Buddhism) Brno: MU.
    58. Lyon, David. 2000. Jesus in Disneyland. Religion in Postmodern Times. Cambridge: Polity Press.
    59. Majka, Józef. 1967. 'The Sociology of Religion in Poland.' Pp. 227-247 in The Valley of Silence. Catholic Thought in Contemporary Poland, edited by James J. Zatko. London: University of Notre Dame Press.
    60. Martin, David. 1978. A General Theory of Secularization. Oxford: Blackwell.
    61. Martin, David. 2005. On Secularization. Towards a Revised Theory. Aldershot: Ashgate.
    62. McGuire, Meredith B. 2001. Religion. The Social Context. Belmond: Wadsworth (5th ed.).
    63. Mendieta, Eduardo (ed.). 2005. The Frankfurt School on Religion. Key Writings by the Major Thinkers. New York - London: Routledge.
    64. Nešpor, Zdeněk R. 2004a. 'Ekonomistický redukcionismus a humanistická perspektiva v současné sociologii náboženství.' (Economic Reductionism and Humanistic Perspective in Contemporary Sociology of Religion) Religio, Revue pro religionistiku 12 (2): 163-186.
    65. Nešpor, Zdeněk R. 2004b. 'Religious Processes in Contemporary Czech Society.' Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review 40 (3): 277-295. Go to original source...
    66. Nešpor, Zdeněk R. 2007a. 'Paradoxy sociálního a politického působení náboženství v "sekularizované" Evropě.' (Paradoxes of the Social and Political Impacts of Religion in 'Secularised' Europe) Sociální studia 3: 17-30. Go to original source...
    67. Nešpor, Zdeněk R. 2007b. 'Česká sociologie náboženství v letech 1948-89.' (Czech Sociology of Religion in 1948-1989) Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review 43 (4): 675-698. Go to original source...
    68. O'Toole, Roger. 1984. Religion. Classic Sociological Approaches. Toronto: McGraw - Hill Ryerson.
    69. O'Toole, Roger. 1996. 'Religion in Canada. Its Development and Contemporary Situation.' Social Compass 43: 119-134. Go to original source...
    70. Poulat, Émile. 1987. Liberté, laïcité. La guerre des deux Frances et le principe de la modernité. Paris: CERF.
    71. Prothero, Stephen. 2007. Religious Literacy. San Francisco: Harper.
    72. Rémond, René. 1976. L'anticléricalisme en France de 1815 à nos jours. Paris: Fayard.
    73. Robertson, Roland. 1992. Globalization. Social Theory and Global Culture. London: Transaction.
    74. Roy, Olivier. 2006. 'Islam in Europe. Clash of Religions or Convergence of Religiosities?' Pp. 131-144 in Conditions of European Solidarity II. Religion in the New Europe, edited by Krzysztof Michalski. Budapest - New York: Central European University Press.
    75. Sekot, Aleš. 1985. Sociologie náboženství. (Sociology of Religion) Prague: Svoboda.
    76. Stark, Rodney and William S. Bainbridge. 1985. The Future of Religions. Secularization, Revival and Cult Formation. Berkeley: University of California Press. Go to original source...
    77. Stark, Rodney and William S. Bainbridge. 1987. A Theory of Religion. New York: P. Lang.
    78. Stark, Rodney and Roger Finke. 2000. Acts of Faith. Explaining the Human Side of Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press. Go to original source...
    79. Sundén, Hjalmar. 1966. Die Religion und die Rolen. Einer Psychologische Untersuchung der Frömigkeit. Berlin: Töpelmann. Go to original source...
    80. Swartz, David. 1997. Culture and Power. The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Go to original source...
    81. Throwen, James. 1983. Marxist-Leninist 'Scientific Atheism' and the Study of Religion and Atheism in the U.S.S.R. Berlin - New York: Mouton. Go to original source...
    82. Váně, Jan. 2007. 'Z. Nešpor - D. Lužný: Sociologie náboženství.' Religio, Revue pro religionistiku 15 (2): 305-309.
    83. Vidich, Arthur J. and Stanford M. Lyman. 1985. American Sociology. Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their Directions. New Haven: Yale University Press.
    84. Warner, R. Stephen. 1993. 'Work in Progress toward a New Paradigm for the Sociological Study of Religion in the United States.' American Journal of Sociology 98 (5): 1044-1093. Go to original source...
    85. Willaime, Jean-Paul. 1996. 'Laïcité et religion en France.' Pp. 153-171 in Identités religieuses en Europe, edited by Grace Davie and Danièle Hervieu-Léger. Paris: La Découverte.
    86. Willaime, Jean-Paul. 1998. 'Religious and Secular France between Northern and Southern Europe.' Social Compass 45 (1): 155-174. Go to original source...
    87. Willaime, Jean-Paul. 1999. 'French-Language Sociology of Religion in Europe since the Second World War.' Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 25 (2): 343-371.
    88. Wilson, Bryan R. 1961. Sect and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.
    89. Wilson, Bryan R. 1982. Religion in Sociological Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    90. Wuthnow, Robert. 1998. After Heaven. Spirituality in America since the 1950s. Berkeley: University of California Press. Go to original source...
    91. Wuthnow, Robert. 2005. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity. Princeton - Oxford: Princeton University Press. Go to original source...
    92. Young, Lawrence A. (ed.). 1996. Rational Choice Theory and Religion. Summary and Assessment. New York - London: Routledge.
    93. Zablocki, Benjamin and Thomas Robbins (eds.). 2001. Misunderstanding Cults. Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

    This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits non-comercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is properly cited. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.


    Return to the content