:What Sociology Teaches Us About Religion in Our World
/ Michael O. Emerson, William A. Mirola, Susanne C. Monahan
Boston
: Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Education
, 2011.
xiv, 258 p.
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Getting acquainted - Why religion? - You believe what? - Downloading God, big box churches and the crystal shop around the corner - The shape of religion - Can't we all just get along? - News flash : God's not dead (and neither is the Goddess!) - Our God rules (yours doesn't) - Religion, conflict, and the state - Divine rights and casting down the mighty from their thrones - Give us our due - Religion, identity, and social inequalities - Adam, Eve, and Steve - The (not-so-great) color wall of the U.S. - Who brought the enchiladas to my Bar Mitzvah? - More big questions - Godless science, irrational religion - The end of days? religion and environment - Do we need God to do good?