Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Index 481

Williams, Rhys, 13
Wilson, Bryan: on secularization, 97; and
church-sect typology, 126
Wink, Paul, 12
Wirth, Louis, 244
Witness for Peace, 319, 328
women: changes in church attitudes to roles
of, 169, 171–2; impact of religion on
mortality rates for, 198, 199, 200, 202; role
of in immigrant churches, 231, 235–36;
status of in Judaism, 249–51; in Protestant
mainline churches, 280–1; in evangelical
churches, 281; in Catholic churches,
282; Latina, 283, 291–2, 401–11;
African-American, 283, 290–1; battered
women, 289–90.See alsofeminism
Wood, Richard, 13; and social movements,
221
Woodhead, L., 71
World Trade Center bombing, 4, 362

Wright, Nathan, 8, 13

Wuthnow, Robert, 10, 126; on academic

specialization, 4, 7; on spirituality,

138–9, 144, 145; on decline of

denominationalism, 159; and

liberal/conservative split in liberal

Protestant denominations, 332; on moral

order, 333, 334; on division in civil

religion, 355–6

Yaari, S.: and impact of religion on health, 196

Yang, Fenggang, 229

Yinger, J. Milton: and church-sect typology,

126

Zablocki, Benjamin, 362

Zald, Mayer: and social movements defined,

151–2

Zionism.SeeJewish identity: and

denominationalism