1st Edition
A Contemporary World Sociology of African and Asian Religions
List of Contributors
PREFACE
Philippe Portier
AFRICAN RELIGIONS
1. African Religions and Spiritualities
Afe Adogame
2. Religion from an African Perspective
Emanuela C. Del Re
HINDUISM
3. Hinduism: Continuity and Change
Arvind Sharma
4. Hinduism in the United States
Prema Kurien
5. Into the Cloud. On Mapping “Religion” as Climatic Event: The Case of Hinduism
Federico Squarcini
CONFUCIANISM
6. A Sociology of Global Confucianism in the 21st Century
Anna Sun
7. Confucianism and Chinese Religiosity
Fenggang Yang
8. The Controversial Nature of Confucianism/Ruism
Selusi Ambrogio
BUDDHISM
9. Buddhism
Emma Tomalin
10. Westernised Buddhism as a Modern Spiritual Ideal
Raphaël Liogier
11. The More it Changes, the More it’s the Same (Old Story)…? Buddhism and the Sociology of Religious Change
Lionel Obadia
DAOISM
12. Daoism
Vincent Goossaert
13. Some Comments on Daoism: on Definitions and Practice
Jacopo Scarin
14. Daoism: A Few Clarifications
Maurizio Paolillo
SHINTO
15. The Changing Role of Shrine Shinto in Contemporary Japanese Society
Mark R. Mullins
16. Comments on “The Changing Role of Shrine Shinto in Contemporary Japanese Society”
Erica Baffelli
SIKHISM
17. The Sikh Community
Gurinder Singh Mann
18. Sikhism in Diaspora. The Multifaced Role of Sikh Temples in Italy
Samuele Davide Molli
19. The Sikhs in Italy: Processes of Institutionalisation, and the Building of a Model Minority
Barbara Bertolani
Postface
Roberto Cipriani
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SOCIOLOGISTS OF RELIGION
Index
Biography
Roberto Cipriani is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Roma Tre University, Italy.
Philippe Portier is director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (PSL) in France where he holds the chair ‘History and Sociology of Secularism’.
