Grace Davie 
The Sociology of Religion [EPUB ebook] 
A Critical Agenda

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction: A Critical Agenda
PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Common Sources/Different Pathways
Secularization: Process and Theory
Rational Choice Theory
Modernity: A Single or Plural Construct?
Methodological Challenges
PART TWO: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
Mainstream Religions in the Western World
Minorities and Margins
Demanding Attention: Fundamentalisms in the Modern World
Globalization and the Study of Religion
Religion and the Everyday
Conclusion: Revisiting the Agenda

GRACE DAVIE is professor emeritus in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter UK  She is a past-president of the American Association for the Sociology of Religion (2003) and of the Research Committee 22 (Sociology of Religion) of the International Sociological Association (2002-06).      In 2000-01 she was the Kerstin-Hesselgren Professor at Uppsala, where she returned for extended visits in 2006-7, 2010 and 2012, receiving an honorary degree in 2008.  She has also held visiting appointments at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1996) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1998 and 2003), both in Paris.  She is a member of the Academia Europaea.       In addition to numerous chapters and articles, she is the author of Religion in Britain since 1945 (Blackwell 1994),  Religion in Modern Europe (OUP 2000),  Europe: the Exceptional Case (DLT 2002),  The Sociology of Religion (Sage 2007/2013) and Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox (Wiley-Blackwell 2015); she is the co-author of Religious America, Secular Europe (Ashgate 2008), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe (OUP forthcoming).    Contact details:  G.R.C.Davie@exeter.ac.uk