Handbook of Religion and Social Institutions
Over the past twenty years, religion as a predictor of social behaviors has been increasingly documented in social arenas. Traditional relationships between religion and family, voting patterns, race and education have been well noted. More recently, stud
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Religion and Social Institutions
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Handbook of
Religion and Social Institutions
Edited by
Helen Rose Ebaugh University of Houston Houston, Texas
Helen Rose Ebaugh Department of Sociology University of Houston 496 Philip G. Hoffman Hall Houston, TX 77204-3012
XXX Subject Classification (2000): (Sociology) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Handbook of religion and social institutions / edited by Helen Rose Ebaugh p. cm. – (Handbooks of sociology and social research) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-387-23788-7 1. Religion and sociology. I. Ebaugh, Helen Rose Fuchs, 1942– II. Series. BL60.H266 2005 306.6—dc22 ISBN 0-387-25703-9
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Preface The sociology of religion is as old as the discipline of Sociology. Almost without exception, the “founders” focused on the role that religion and religious institutions played during the era of rapid and radical social change in 19th- and early-20th-century Europe. August Comte viewed religious explanations as the most primitive moment in his Law of the Three Stages and argued that Western societies we
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