TY - BOOK AU - Hjelm,Titus AU - Zuckerman,Phil TI - Studying religion and society: sociological self-portraits SN - 9780415667975 (hbk) AV - BL60 .S833 2013 U1 - 306.6071 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Religion and sociology KW - Study and teaching N1 - Includes index; Introduction : on sociological self-reflection / Titus Hjelm and Phil Zuckerman -- A life in religious communities / Nancy Ammerman -- Stranger in a strange land / William Sims Bainbridge -- Doing sociology : confessions of a professional stranger / Eileen Barker -- Constructing religion : serendipity and skepticism / James a. Beckford -- Straddling boundaries : disciplines, theories, methods, and continents / Peter Beyer -- Work and adventure: from poetry to sociology of religion / Irena Borowik -- Unintended consequences biographical and sociological / Steve Bruce -- Serendipity in the study of religion and society / Mark Chaves -- Thinking sociologically about religion : discerning and explaining pattern / Grace Davie -- Hurdling over borders : reflections on my intellectual trajectory / Karel Dobbelaere -- Counting and accounting for worldviews : doing surveys and social research on four continents -- Barry Kosmin -- My specific form of disorientation / Robert Orsi -- Engaged faith; my own and of those I study / Wade Clark Roof -- Studying Protestantism in a Catholic and secular context : lessons for a comparative sociology of religion / Jean-Paul Willaime -- Side roads and detours : a narrative reconstruction about studying religion / Robert Wuthnow ER -