Sociology 3503 YA
Religion and Spirituality
Recommended Material
Relevant Publications
Ammerman, Nancy Tatom, Baptist Battles. 1990.
Barber, Eileen, et al. eds. Secularization, Rationalism, and Sectarianism: Essays in Honor of Bryan R. Wilson. 1993.
Barker, Eileen, The Making of a Moonie. 1984.
Baum, Gregory, Religion and Alienation: A Theological Reading of Sociology. 1975.
Beckford, James. The Triumph of Prophecy: A Sociological Study of Jehovah's Witnesses. 1975.
______, Cult Controversies. 1985.
Berger, Peter, L. "Some Second Thoughts on Substantive versus Functional Definitions of Religion." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 1974, pp. 126-133.
. “The Desecularization of the World. 1999.
Bibby, Reginald W., Chapter on "Religion" in Robert Hagedorn, ed., Sociology, pp. 387-427. 1980.
. Fragmented Gods. 1987.
. in “Cancopy Readings”. 1993.
Brandon, Ruth, The Spiritualists. 1983.
Bromley, D.G. and A.D. Shupe, Strange Gods. 1981.
Bruce, Steve, ed. Religion and Modernization: Sociologists and Historians Debate the Secularization Thesis. 1992.
Bruce, Steve, Religion in Modern Britain. 1995.
. Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults. 1996.
. Fundamentalism. 2001.
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Brym, Robert J. et al. (eds.) The Jews in Canada. 1992.
Budd, Susan. Varieties of Unbelief. 1977.
Burns, Gene. The Frontiers of Catholicism: The Politics of Ideology in a Liberal World.
Campbell, Colin. Toward a Sociology of Unbelief. 1972.
Caplow, T. et al. All Faithful People: Change and Continuity in Middletown's Religion. 1983.
Clark, S.D., Church and Sect in Canada. A classic work in the field. It deals with the period 1760 to 1900 and is thus historical in focus. Heavy going but worth the attention.
Corbett, Julia M. Religion in America. 1990.
Crysdale, S., The Changing Church in Canada: National Survey of the Church in Canadian Society, 1965.
Crysdale, S. and L. Wheatcroft, eds., Religion in Canadian Society. Toronto. 1976.
Davies, Alan. Antisemitism in Canada. 1992.
Davies, G. Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing Not Belonging. 1994.
Dawson, Lorne, L. Cults in Context: Readings in the Study of New Religious Movements. 1996.
Ellwood, Robert S. and H.B. Partin, Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America. 1988.
Essien-Udom, E.U., Black Nationalism: A Search For Identity in America 1962(7).
Finke, Roger and R. Stark: The Churching of America: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. 1992.
Gibson, David. The Coming Catholic Church. 2003.
Glock, Charles G. and Rodney Stark, Religion and Society in Tension. 1965.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life. 1989.
Graham, Ron. God’s Dominion. 1990.
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Greeley, Andrew M., Religious Change in America. 1989.
____. Unsecular Man: The Persistence of Religion. 1972.
Hamilton, M. Sociology and the world’s religions. 1998.
Hamm, Peter M., Continuity and Change Among Canadian Mennonite Brethren. 1987.
Hammond, Philip. Religion and Personal Autonomy: The Third Disestablishment in America.
Heelas, P. The New Age Movement. 1996.
Hoge, Dean R. et al. Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers. 1994.
Hunter, James Davidson. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America.
. American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity. 1983.
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902.
Jenkins, Philip. Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. 1999.
. Spirit Chasers.
Johnson, Frederick B. Religion, Modernity and Homosexual Ordination in a Liberal Protestant Ordination. M.A. Thesis, LakeheadUniversity. 1993.
Kelley, Dean. Why Conservative Churches Are Growing. 1972.
Kephart, William M. & W. W. Zellner. Extraordinary Groups. 1994.
Kosmin, B.M. and S.P. Lachman. One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society. 1993.
Kurtz, L. Gods in the global village. 1995.
Levitt, C. & W. Schaffir. The riot at Christie Pits. 1987.
Lyon, David. Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times. 2000.
Mann, W.E., Sect, Cult and Church in Alberta. 1955.
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Martin, David, "The Denomination," Bt. Journal of Sociology. 1962.
. “The secularization issue” British Journal of Sociology, pp.465-74. 1991.
Marshall, Donald B. Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850-1940. 1992.
Mauss, Armand. The Angel and the Beehive: The Morman Struggle with Assimilation. 1994.
Mol, Hans, Faith and Fragility: Religion and Identity in Canada. 1986.
McAuley, E. Nancy, Faith without Form: Beliefs of Catholic Youth. 1986.
McSweeney, Bill, Roman Catholicism: the Search for Relevance. Oxford Basil Blackwell. 1980.
Nelson, Geoffrey K., Spiritualism and Society. 1969.
Nesbitt, Paula D. Feminization of the Clergy in America. 1997
Nevaskar, B. Capitalists without Capitalism: The Jains of India and the Quakers of the West. 1971.
Niebuhr, H. Richard, The Social Sources of Denominationalism. 1929.
Nock, David A., "Differential Ecological Receptivity of Conversionist and Revolutionist Sects," Sociological Analysis, 229-246. 1989.
. In Cancopy Readings. 1993.
. "The Historical Process and the Reformulation of Religious Typologies: The Case of the Anglican Communion," The Sociological Review, Vol. 29, No. 4, 521-541. 1981.
O'Toole, Roger, Religion: Classic Sociological Approaches. 1984.
Penton, M. James, Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses. 1985.
_____, Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada: Champions of Freedom of Speech and Worship. 1976.
Peshkin, Alan. Gods Choice: The Total World of a FundamentalistChristianSchool.
Peter, Karl A., The Dynamics of Hutterite Society. 1987.
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Poll, S., The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg. 1962(69).
Pope, L., Millhands and Preachers. Set in Dukes of Hazzard country. 1942 (1st ed.)
Reeves, Thomas C. The empty church: Does Organized Religion Matter Anymore? 1996.
Reimer, Sam. Evangelicals and the Continental Divide. 2003.
Riordon, Michael. The First Stone: Homosexuality and the United Church. 1990.
Roof, Wade Clark. A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation. 1993.
. Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion. 1999.
Roof, Wade C. and Wm. McKinney, American Mainline Religion. 1987.
Rose, Susan D. Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America. 1988.
Scheffel, David, In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers of Alberta. 1991.
Schwartz, Gary, Sect Ideologies and Social Status.
Seidler, J. and K. Meyer. Conflict and Change in the Catholic Church. 1989.
Shaffir, W., Life in a Religious Community: The Lubavitcher Chassidim in Montreal, 1974.
Shermer, Michael. How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science. 1999.
Smucker, Donovan E., A Sociology of Canadian Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish: A Bibliography with Annotations. Invaluable for any research on these groups.
Sorokin, P.A. The Crisis of Our Age. 1941.
Special issues of the Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1978. Articles on Mainstream Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, Mennonites, etc. in Canada.
Stackhouse, John G. Canadian evangelicalism in the twentieth century. 1993.
Stark, Rodney, Sociology. Chapter on Religion, 350-375.
Stark, Rodney and Roger Finke. Acts of Faith. 2000.
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Stourton, Edward. Absolute Truth: The Catholic Church in the World Today. 1998.
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic. 1971.
Thrower, James. Religion and the Classical Theories. 1999.
Towler, Robert, The Fate of the Anglican Clergy. 1979.
Victor, Jeffrey S. Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend.
Wagner, Melinda Bollar. God's Schools: Choice and Compromise in American Society.
Wallace, Ruth A. They Call Her Pastor: A New Role for Catholic Women. 1992.
Wallis, R., The Road to Total Freedom: A Sociological Analysis of Scientology. 1976.
Ware, K. (or T.). The Orthodox Church. 1964.
Washington. Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: Theosophy and the Emergence of the Western Guru. 1993.
Waugh, E. et al. eds. Muslim Families in North America. 1991.
Wilson, A.N. God's Funeral. 1999.
Wilson, Bryan, Religious Sects (would have been selected as a text but is out of print!); BR 157 W75R. [On Reserve]
_____. Religion in Secular Society: A Sociological Comment. 1966.
_____. Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of Three Religious Groups in Britain.
_____. Religion in Sociological Perspective. 1982.
_____. The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism. 1990
Wilson, Bryan and K. Dobbelaere. A Time to Chant. 1994.
Wuthnow, Robert, After Heaven: Spirituality in America since the 1950s. 1998
. The Struggle for America's Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals and Secularism. 1989.
. The Restructuring of American Religion. 1988.
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