The sociology of religion investigates how religious beliefs, practices and institutions shape, and are reshaped by, wider social structures. This field examines the role of religion in maintaining ...

The Group for the Study of Religion and Social Change is open to graduate students in the Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University and works in collaboration with scholars in the U.S.

Years ago when I was co-directing the Berkeley-Harvard program in comparative religion our conference in Cambridge had divided into two camps, the ethical relativists and the ethical absolutists.

There are hundreds of thousands of religious congregations across the United States. Some of the biggest, known as “megachurches,” are facing challenges as the culture around organized religion ...

The author summarizes and reviews the literature dealing with the forms, social expressions and general social relations of religion in all its various manifestations. It is a work of immense ...