Introduction
BOK: Furseth, Inger and Pål Repstad 2006. An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion. Classical and Contemporary Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate. (234 pages)
Religion in classical and contemporary sociological theory
*Durkheim, Emile 1915/1982. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. London: Allen & Unwin, 23-47 (Ch I). (25 pages)
*Furseth, Inger 2009. Religion in the works of Habermas, Bourdieu, and Foucault. I The Oxford Handbook of The Sociology of Religion, edited by Peter B. Clarke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 98-115. (18 pages)
*Marx, Karl 1845/1978 Theses on Feuerbach. In On Religion, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 69-72. Mineola, NY: Dover (3 pages)
*Weber, Max 1922/1993. The Sociology of Religion. Boston: Beacon Press, 80-117 (Ch. VI and VII) (36 pages).
Individual religiosity, spirituality, and lived religion
BOK: Ammerman, Nancy T. (ed) 2007. Everyday religion. Observing Modern Religious Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press (235 pages)
@Furseth, Inger 2005. From «Everything Has a Meaning» to «I Want to Believe in Something»: Religious Change Between two Generations of Women in Norway. Social Compass 52(2): 157-168. (12 pages) (ebok)
@Sointu, Eeva og Linda Woodhead 2008. Spirituality, Gender, and Expressive Selfhood. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47(2): 259-276. (18 pages) (ebok)
@Tavory, Iddo og Yehuda C. Goodman 2009. «A Collective of Individuals»: Between Self and Solidarity in a Rainbow Gathering. Sociology of Religion (70)3: 262-284. (22 pages) (ebok)
Religion, gender, and ethnicity
@Marler, Penny Long 2008. Religious Change in the West: Watch the Women. In: Aune, Kristin, Sonya Sharma and Giselle Vincett (eds.) Women and Religion in the West. Challenging Secularization. Aldershot: Ashgate, 23-56 (34 pages) (ebok)
@Bartkowski, John P. 2001. Godly Masculinities: Gender Discourse among the Promise Keepers. Social Thought & Research 24 (1-2): 53-87 (35 pages) (ebok)
@Jacobsen, Christine M 2011. Troublesome threesome: feminism, anthropology and Muslim women’s piety. Feminist review 98: 65-82. (18 pages) (ebok)
@Jeldtoft, Nada 2010. Lived Islam: Religious Identity with “Non-Organized” Muslim Minorities. Ethnic and Racial Studies 1-18. (18 pages) (ebok)
@Mahmood, Saba 2001. Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival. Cultural Anthropology 16(2): 202-236 (35 pages). (ebok)
Religious organizations and movements
*Ebaugh, Helen Rose and Janet Saltzman Chafetz 2000. Religion and the New Immigrants. Continuitites and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations. Walnut Creek: AltaMira, 49-70, 80-99/ ch. 4, 6 (42 pages). (ebok)
@Kivisto, Peter 2014. Reframing Immigrant Religious Organizations and Practices. Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 27(1): 1-17 (17 pages)
Fundamentalism, secularism
*Bruce, Steve 2008. Fundamentalism. “2d edition, revised and updated. Cambridge: Polity, ch. 1 (14 pages)
*Calhoun, Craig 2011. Secularism, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere. In Calhoun, Craig, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan Van Antwerpen (eds.) 2011. Rethinking Secularism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 75-91 (17 pages). (ebok)
@Demerath, N.J., III 2003. Crossing the Gods. World Religions and Wordly Politics. New Brunswick: Rutgers, Introduction and Ch. 7 (40 pages) (ebok)
*Furseth, Inger 2011. Why in the City? Explaining Urban Fundamentalism. In Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan Massoumi (eds.) The Fundamentalist City? Religiosity and the remaking of urban space. London: Routledge, 27-50 (24 pages). (ebok)
*Juergensmeyer, Mark 2011. Rethinking the Secular and Religious Aspects of Violence. . In Calhoun, Craig, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan Van Antwerpen (eds.) 2011. Rethinking Secularism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 185-203 (19 pages).
Religion in contemporary societies: Secularization or post-secularity?
*Berger, Peter L. 1999. The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview. I The Desecularization of the World. Resurgent Reigion and World Politics, redigert av Peter L. Berger, 1-18. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans. (18 pages)
*Berger, Peter L., Grace Davie and Effie Fokas 2008. Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations. Aldershot: Ashgate, 9-22 (Ch 2) (13 pages)
*Casanova, José 2006. Religion, European secular identities, and European integration. I Religion in an Expanding Europe, edited by Timothy A. Byrnes and Peter J. Katzenstein, 65-92. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (28 pages) (ebok)
@Habermas, Jurgen 2006. Religion in the Public Sphere. European Journal of Philosophy 14(1): 1-25. (26 pages)
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