Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge

Religion, Deviance, and Social Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prevent crime, delinquency, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, or joining cults? Despite the fact that ordinary citizens assume religion deters deviant behavior, there has been little systematic scientific research on these crucial questions. This book is the first comprehensive analysis, drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary data, and written in a style that will appeal to readers from many intellectual backgrounds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780415915298
• ISBN-10: 0415915295
• Artikelnr.: 22196461

Autorenporträt

Rodney Stark is Professor of Sociology and of Comparative Religion, University of Washington. William SimsBainbridge is Director of the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Religion and the Moral Order: An Introduction
Part 1 Religion and Deviance
Chapter 2 Religion and Suicidefn2_a/We thank Daniel P. Doyle and Jesse Lynn Rushing who contibuted to an essay on which a portion of this Chapter is based.
Chapter 3 Durkheim's Suicide: An Inquest
Chapter 4 Rediscovering Moral Communitiesfn4_a/Danicl P. Doyle, Lori Kent, Robert Crutchfield, and Roger Finke contributed to essays on which portions of this Chapter are based.
Chapter 5 Religion as Context: Saving a "Lost Cause"
Chapter 6 Drugs and Alcohol
Part 2 Religion as Deviance
Chapter 7 Religious Cults
Chapter 8 Religion and Mental Illness
Chapter 9 Social Control in Utopian Communities
Chapter 10 Brief Reflections on a Research Agenda