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WWW Links - Sociology of Religion
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/bookshelf/ammerman_article3.html
This article, from the Hartford Institute for Religious Research,
explores the phenomenon of congregations highlighting their denominational
particularities. The author discusses how this recent trend differs
from
past practice of down-playing differences, and how such distinctions
tend to
be based on differences in ritual and doctrine, rather than social
differences.
http://www.asu.edu/clas/religious_studies/home/1996lec.html
Another interesting composition by Nancy T. Ammerman. In this article,
Ammerman seeks to discern whether or not American society's shift
from
greater participation in voluntary organizations (such as the Elks,
the PTA,
and religious congregations) is cause for concern about the associational
health of our country, or whether such a trend even exists.
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/family_Becker_article1.html
This writing, authored by Penny Edgell Becker, discusses how
congregations have adapted to changes in work- and families' schedules.
Dr.
Becker looks at changes from the 1950s to modern day. This site
offers the
first portion of Dr. Becker's essay; the remainder of the writing
is
downloadable.
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/family_Becker_article2.html
In this essay, Penny Edgell Becker makes an argument that 'modern'
family lifestyles reduce religious involvement. Dr. Becker uses
a random
sample of adults from upstate New York to help support her position,
and also
discusses the differences in religious involvement for men and women.
This
is an abbreviation of Dr. Becker's original writing; the original
is
available via download.
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showarticle?item_id=224
An interesting commentary by Robert Bellah, et al, exploring the
effect
that radical individualism has had on civic membership. Bellah cites
many
other writings and hypotheses in his essay, which in many ways parallels
the
'ASUWeb' writing by Nancy T. Ammerman.
http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cimac/berger.html
Written by Peter L. Berger, this composition considers Secularization
Theory, by comparing Eastern and Western cultures, and by discussing
the
interrelationship between different aspects of Secularization Theory.
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showarticle?item_id=223
In this article, Lynn Schofield Clark, Ph.D., examines the role
that
media plays in teens' religious identity-construction. Drawing from
findings
from a study Dr. Schofield Clark created, the author comes to some
interesting conclusions regarding media and adolescents' formation
of
religious identity.
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/lectures/join_ssm.htmll
These are lecture notes from a Sociology course instructed by Jeffrey
K.
Hadden at the University of Virginia. Clearly presented topics include:
Conversion and the Web of Group Affiliation; Conversion as a Problematic
Status; and, Theories of Conversion.
http://www.colorado.edu/Journalism/MEDIALYF/analysis/umcom.html
In this address to the Trustees of the Foundation for United Methodist
Communications, author Stewart M. Hoover, Ph.D. discusses a societal
change
of 'an old dualism between the private and the public, between the
religious
and the secular, and between the sacred and the profane, is a less
definite
space where those distinctions exist in state of fluidity and flux'.
http://www.abo.fi/comprel/temenos/temeno32/roof.htm
Author Wade Clark Roof examines the changing face of religion in
America,
from the 1960s to the 1990s. Roof looks at such topics as the New
Pluralism,
the New Voluntarism, new organizational structures, and the New
Spirituality.
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/bookshelf/roozen_article1.html
This article, written by David A. Roozen, explores the religious
journey
of the Baby Boomer generation. Using research data on the habits
of Baby
Boomers, the author looks at the relationship between parenting
and the
Boomers' return to religious involvement, and whether or not an
'empty nest'
will be cause for a decline in religious involvement in this population.
http://www.adelphi.edu/~catissue/ARTICLES/ARROYO96.HTM
An interesting article by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, President of
PARAL
(Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinos.) In this writing,
the
author pulls from studies on Latino religion and identities to form
a clearer
picture of Latino religious participation.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/moriyuki/abukuma/
This site is dedicated to Max Weber--his writings, a synopsis of
his
approach to religion, lectures and writings on Weberian text and
thought, as
well as links to reference sources.
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