Encyclopedia of Religion
and Society

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A
Abortion
Acquaviva, Sabino
Adams, James Luther

Adaptation
Adolescence/Youth Culture
Adventism
Affective Commitment
African American Religion
Age
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alienation
Allport, Gordon
Alternation
American Academy of Religion
American Catholic Sociological Society
American Psychological Association, Section on the Psychology of Religion
American Religion
American Sociological Association, Section on the Sociology of Religion
Amish
Ammerman, Nancy T.
Anabaptists
Ancestor Worship
Animism
Anomie
Anthropology of Religion
Anticult Movement
Apocalyptic
Apostasy and Defection
Appalachia
Apparition
Archives de Science Sociales des Religions
Asceticism
Asian Religion
Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Astrology
Atheism
Attitudes
Attribution Theory
Authoritarianism
B
Baha'i
Bailey, Edward I.

Baptists
Barker, Eileen
Barrett, Donald N.
Batson, C. Daniel
Becker, Ernst
Beckford, James A.
Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin
Beliefs
Bellah, Robert N.
Belonging
Bendix, Richard
Berger, Peter L.
Bergson, Henri
Bibby, Reginald
Biblical Studies
Blasi, Anthony J.

Blizzard, Samuel
Bogardus, Emory
Book of Mormon
Bouma, Gary D.

Bourdieu, Pierre
Bourg, Carroll J.
Brainwashing
Brewer, Earl D.C.
Bricolage
Bromley, David G.
Brophy, Mary Ligouri
Brunner, Edmund S. de
Buber, Martin
Buddhism
Burhoe, Ralph
C
Calvinism
Campbell, Joseph
Campicje, Ronald J.
Canadian Study of Religion
Capps, Gordon
Cargo Cults
Caribbean Religions
Carroll, Jackson
Casuistry
Chalfant, H. Paul
Change Movements
Change
Chanting
Charisma
Charismatic Movement
Christian Right
Christian School Movement
Christian Science
Christian Social Thought
Christian Sociology
Christianity
Church-Sect Theory
Church-State Relations (U.S.)
Cipriani, Roberto
Civil Disobedience
Civil Religion
Civil Rights
Clark, Walter Houston
Clemens, Alphonse
Clergy
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Models
Commitment
Communal Groups/ Religious Community
Communal Involvement
Communitarianism
Community Organization
Compassion
Compensators
Conflict
Confucianism
Congregationalism
Conscience
Contemporary Jewry
Contingency
Contributions
Conversion
Crimes
Cult
Curtis, Jack H.

D
D'Antonio, William V.
Dashefsky, Arnold
Davidson, James D.
Death and Dying
Decision Making
Deferred Gratification
Definition of Religion
Demerath, N. Jay III
Democracy
Demythologizing
Denomination
Deprivation Theory
Desroche, Henri
Deviance
Dialectics
Disciples of Christ
Disenchantment
Dittes, James E.
Divine Light Mission
Dobbelaere, Karel
Dogmatism
Donovan, John D.
Doomsday Cult
Douglas, Mary
Douglass, H. Paul
Drugs
DuBois, W.E.B.
Dudley, Carl
Durkheim, Emile

E
Eastern Orthodoxy
Ebaugh, Helen Rose
Ecology Movement
Ecology of Religion
Ecumenism
Edwards, Johnathan
Eister, Allen W.
Elazar, Daniel
Elective Affinity
Eliade, Mircea
Encyclical
Engels, Friedrich
Episcopal Church
Equal Rights Amendment
Erikson, Erik
Eschatology
est
Ethics, Professional
Ethnicity
Ethnocentrism
Ethos
Evaluation Research
Evangelicalism
Evans-Pritchard, E.E.
Evolution of Religion
Experience

F
Facey, Paul W.
Faith Development
Family, The
Feminist Theory and Research
Feminist Theology
Feminization Thesis
Ferrarotti, Franco
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Fichter, Joseph H.
Finney, Charles Grandison
Fitzpatrick, Joseph P.
Folk Religion
Frazer, James G.
Frazier, E. Franklin
Freud, Sigmund
Friedel, Francis
Friess, Horace L.
Fukuyama, Yoshio
Functionalism
Fundamentalism
Funerals
Furfey, Paul H.

G
Gallagher, Ralph
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
Gannon, Thomas M.
Garrett, William R.
Geertz, Clifford J.
Geffen, Rela Mintz
Gellner, Ernest
Gender
Geographic Mobility
Gerontology
Gilligan, Carol
Globalization
Glock, Charles Young
Glossalalia
Goldstein, Sidney
Gorusch, Richard
Graham, Billy
Gramsci, Antonio
Great Awakenings
Greek and Roman Religions
Greeley, Andrew M.
Groups
Gruesser, Jeanine
Guilt

H
Hadden, Jeffrey K.
Hammond, Phillip E.
Hargrove, Barbara J.
Harte, Thomas J.
Healy, Mary Edward
Hegel, G.W.F.
Heller, Celia Stopnicka
Herberg, Will
Herskovitz, Melville
Hervieu-Léger, Danièle
Himmelfarb, Harry
Hinduism
Hoge, Dean R.
Homans, George C.
Homosexuality
Hood, Ralph W., Jr.
Hughes, John E.
Human Rights
Hymns

I
Identity
Ideology
Immanence
Implicit Religion
Imse, Thomas P.
Individualism
International Society for Krishna Conciousness
Internet
Intrinsic-Extrinsic Religiousity
Investments
Invisible Religion
Irreligion
Islam

J

Jackson, Jesse
Jacquet, Constant H.
Jainism
James, William

Jarrett, William H.
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jesus People
Jewish-Christian Relations

Jews
Johnson, Benton
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Journal of Church and State
Judaism

K
Kallen, Horace M.
Kane John J.
Kaslow, George W.
Kelley, Dean M.
Kelly, James R.
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Kincheloe, Samuel C.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Klausner, Samuel Z.
Kloetzi, Walter
Kluckhohn, Clyde
Koresh, David
Ku Klux Klan

L
Labbens, Jean
Laity
Lane, Ralph, Jr.
Language
Last Supper
Lazerwitz, Bernard

Le Bras, Gabriel
Leadership
Leclercq, Jacques
Lehman, Edward C., Jr.
Lenski, Gerhard
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien
Lewis, G. Douglass
Life Satisfaction
Lincoln, Abraham
Lipset, Seymour Martin
Local-Cosmopolitan Distinction
Lofland, John
Long, Theodore E.
Luckmann, Thomas
Luhmann, Niklas
Lutheranism
M
Magic
Mainline Churches
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Marriage and Divorce
Martin, David
Marty, Martin E.
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Maslow, Abraham
Mass
Mauss, Marcel
Mayer, Egon
McCaffrey, Augustine D.
McGuire, Meredith B.
McKinney, William
McNamara, Patrick H.
McNamara, Robert J.
Meaning
Mennonites
Mental Health
Merton, Robert K.
Metaphor
Methodism
Mihanovich, Clement S.
Millenarianism
Mills, C. Wright
Ministry
Missions/ Missiology
Moberg, David O.
Mobility (Social)
Modernism
Mol, Hans
Moral Community
Moral Development
Morality
Mormonism
Motive
Mueller, Franz H.
Muller, Max

Mulvaney, Bernard G.
Mundie, Paul J.
Mundy, Paul
Murray, Raymond W.
Mysticism
N
Nason-Clark, Nancy
Nation of Islam
National Council of Churches
Native Americans
Navin, Robert B.
Neal, Marie Augusta
Near-Death Experiences
Nelsen, Hart M.
Nelson, Benjamin
New Religious Movements
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Niebuhr, Richard H.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nonofficial Religion
Nonrational Experience
Noyes, John Humphrey
Nuesse, C. Joseph

O
O'Dea, Thomas
Occupations
Orders
Ordination
Organization Theory and Religious Organization
Orthodoxy
Orthopraxy
Other-Worldly
Otto, Rudolph

P
Papacy
Parapsychology
Parish
Parsons, Talcott
Particularism
Peace
Peak Experiences
Pemberton, Prentiss
Pentecostalism
Peoples Temple
Perry, Everett L.
Personality

Phenomenology
Piaget, Jean
Pilgrimage/Tourism
Pillarization
Plausibility
Pluralism
Politics
Pope, Liston
Popular Religion
Positivism
Postmodernism
Poverty
Practice
Preferential Option for the Poor
Premillenialism
Presbyterians
Progressivism
Protestant Ethic Thesis

Protestantism
Proudfoot, Wayne
Pruyser, Paul
Psychic Phenomena
Psychology of Religion
Public Opinion Polling
Public Religion
Purity
Q
  Quakers
Quasi-Religions
 
 
R
Racism
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.
Radicalism
Rajneesh Movement
Rational Choice Theory
Redfield, Robert
Reductionism
Reformation
Reiss, Paul J.
Religion
Religiosity
Religious Education
Religious Research Association
Religious Studies
Research Committee 22
Research Methods
Resource Mobilization
Review of Religious Research
Revitilization movements
Revolution
Rhetoric
Richardson, James T.
Rites of Passage
Ritual
Robbins, Thomas
Robertson, Pat
Robertson, Roland
Robinson, Leo
Rokeach, Milton
Roles
Roman Catholicism
Roof, Wade Clark

Ross, Eva Jenny
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Routinization
Ryan, John A.

S
Sacred
Sacrifice
Salience
Salvation Army
Sapir, Edward
Satanism
Scherer, Ross P.
Schneider, Louis
Schnepp, Gerald J.
Schoenherr, Richard A.
School Prayer
Science and Religion
Scientology
Secondary Anxiety
Secular Religion
Secularization
Self-Denial
Seminaries and Seminarians
Sexism

Sexuality and Fertility
Shakers
Shinto
Shippey, Frederick A.
Shriver, Peggy L.

Shupe, Anson D., Jr.
Sikhism
Silva Mind Control
Simmel, Georg
Simpson, John H.
Sklare, Marshall
Slavery
Smith, Joseph
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell
Smith, William Robertson
Snake-Handling Cults
Social Action
Social Compass
Social Control
Social Gospel
Social Integration
Social Justice
Social Movements
Social Psychology
Social Science and Religion
Socialization
Societe International de Sociologie des Religions
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Sociology of Religion
Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review
Soka Gakki
Southernization
Spencer, Anthony
Spencer, Herbert
Spilka, Bernard
Spiritual Fronteirs Fellowship International
Spiritualism
Spirituality
Spiro, Melford
Spitzer, Allen
Stark, Rodney
Stark, Werner
Status
Stratification

Subsidiarity
Supernatural
Surrogates for Religion
Swanson, Guy E.
Symbolic realism
Symbols
Syncretism
Systems theory
T
Taboo
Tamney, Joseph B.
Taoism
Tawney, R.H.
Technology
Televangelism
Teresa, Mother
Theodicy
Theology
Theory
Theosophy
Third World
Thomas, John L.
Tillich, Paul
Timascheff, Nicholasw S.
Tiryakian, Edward A.
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Totemism
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Transcendentalism
Troeltsch, Ernst
Turner, Victor
Two-Party Thesis
Tylor, Edward B.

U
UFO/ Flying Saucer Cults
Ultimacy
Unification Church
Unitarianism
Universalism
V
Values
Vatican II
Verbit, Mervin F.
Verscheure
Violence
Virgin Mary
Virginity
Virtuoso
Volunteerism
Voodoo
Voye, Liliane

W
Wach, Joachim
Wallace, Anthony F.C.
Wallace, Ruth A.
Wallis, Roy
Warner, R. Stephen
Waxman, Chaim I.
We-They Boundaries
Weber, Max
Weigert, Andrew
Well-Being
Wellness
Whitman, Lauris B.
Williams, J. Paul
Willigan, Walter
Wilmore, Gayraud
Wilson, Bryan R.
Wimberley, Ronald C.
Winter, Jerry Alan
Witchcraft
Wood, James R.
Woods, Frances Jerome
Workers' Movements

World Christian Encyclopedia

World-System Theory
Wuthnow, Robert

X - Y - Z
  Yinger, J. Milton
Yoga
Young, Brigham

Zahn, Gordon
Zoroastrianism

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