Reference Publications
- Sociology of Religion
- Quarterly journal from the Association of Sociology tackles theoretical and empical issues and covers topics such as spirituality and community and religion In multicultural societies.
Most Recent Articles from Sociology of Religion 
Reflections on Habits, Buddhism in America, and religious individualism
The twentieth anniversary of the publication of Habits of the Heart, coincidentally, coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the...
6/22/07 by Wendy Cadge · More from publicationThinking culturally about politics: Habits 20 years later and 20 years hence
Habits of the Heart clearly mattered when it was published in 1985. One of only a handful of truly sociological books on the New York Times' list of...
6/22/07 by Richard L. Wood · More from publicationReading and misreading Habits of the Heart
Really important texts are those susceptible to being richly anddiversely misunderstood. An author can always aspire to that dignity.--William H....
6/22/07 by Robert N. Bellah · More from publicationNot just individualism: studying American culture and religion after Habits of the Heart
How do people construct religious meaning in their conversations with each other? What kinds of religious culture exist in American society? How do...
6/22/07 by Kelly Besecke · More from publicationWhy Christianity works: an emotions-focused phenomenological account
It has been three centuries since Voltaire launched his attacks on the Christian Church, 160 years since Marx reduced religion to a narcotic of the...
6/22/07 by Christian Smith · More from publicationIntroduction: Habits of the Heart at 20
At the annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR) in 1985, an "author meets critics" session was held on Habits...
6/22/07 by David Yamane · More from publication