478 Index
postcolonial theory: and feminism, 278
power: as sensitizing concept, 22
prayers in school: supreme court ruling on,
106
Prell, Riv-Ellen, 247
Presser, Stanley: on church attendance, 89, 90,
92
profane time: Durkheim’s definition of, 31
Protestantism: church attendance rates, 85,
86, 113; growth of in Latin America,
106–7; schisms in, 126; and family
ideology and church programs, 169,
170, 171, 172–4, 176; and politics,
305–6, 307–10; as basis of civil society,
351–2
Putnam, Robert, 350, 396: on decline of
voluntary associations, 140, 351
Qi Gong: as religious movement, 57
Quakers, 340
qualitative methodology.Seemethodology:
quantitative and qualitative in sociology of
religion
queer theory: and gender, 278
Raab, Earl, 244
race, 12; research on, 22–3; intersection of
with class and gender, 278, 288; and
diversity in faith-based social justice
groups, 391.See alsoinequality; ethnicity;
minority groups
Radcliffe-Brown, A. R.: on ritual, 38
Rappaport, Roy: on significance and meanings
of ritual, 37–9
Ras Tafarianism, 374
rational choice theory, 62; weaknesses of,
21–2; compared to secularization theory,
68–70; and fundamentalism, 74
rationality: and emotionality as intertwined,
4–5; in religion, 5–6
Reed, Andrew, 104
Reed, Ralph, 325, 327
reflexivity, 6, 145
Reform Judaism.SeeJewish identity: and
denominationalism
religion and religions: statistics on beliefs,
7–8; reasons for studying, 7–9, 22–3;
conceptual ambiguity of, 45–7; historical
and global differentiation of, 47–50;
contested boundaries of, 50–3; social forms
of, 53–8; challenges of in global society,
58–60; defined, 65, 138 and political
activism, 348.See alsoHinduism; Daoism;
Shinto; Buddhism; Christianity; Judaism;
Islam; Confucianism; Catholicism;
Protestantism; Mormonism;
Pentecostalism; fundamentalism
religious economies, 108–9; regulation of,
100–1; sacralization of, 101–2; and
competition and commitment, 102–4;
America as example of, 104–6; in Latin
America, 106–7; in Quebec, 107–8
religious economies model (REM): compared
to secularization theory, 110, 111, 113–15,
120–2
religious organizations: as bureaucracies,
127–9; new research agendas on, 134–6
religiousness: relation between spirituality
and, 179–80; subjects of study of
spirituality and, 180–1; in second half of
adult life, 181–3; and vital involvement in
late adulthood, 185–7; as buffer in late
adulthood, 187–9
R ́eme, J., 67
Richardson, Herbert, 146
Riddle, Donald W., 373
right-wing parties: in European politics, 313
Rimor, M., 255
ritual, 10, 13; and social activism, 13, 318; and
theory in study of, 23; as demarcator of
social boundaries, 32; and origin of
language, 32–5; and origin of music, 35–7;
nature of, 37–9; in various spheres of life,
39–43; in neoinstitutional theory, 129, as
evoking religious narrative and identity,
216; of civic religion, 353–4; and violence,
364–5
Rizzo, Helen, 283
Robbins, Thomas, 378
Robertson, Pat, 19, 304, 325
Rogers, R. G.: and impact of religion on
health, 195–6
Rokkan, Stein, 309
Roof, Wade Clark, 11
Rose, Arnold M., 244
Rose, Caroline B., 244
Rosenthal, E., 254
Rossi, Alice, 6, 182, 183
Roth, Guenther, 366
Rousseau, Jean Jacques: and civil religion, 353,
354, 356
Rule, James, 363