The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion

The sociology of religion is a fast‐changing field. This justifies the publication of a “new” companion, updating its predecessor which came out in 2001 edited by Richard Fenn. Reasons for the update are no mere puff: there are at least three good reasons – first, the significant growth in globalization as a context and catalyst for the study of the sociology of religion (above all comparatively); second, the radical ways in which the secularization thesis has been deconstructed and has re‐emerged and morphed because of ideas about resacralization and rational choice; and third, because interest in “individual and collective structures...