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Title:

Religion and belief systems / editor, Richard F. Tomasson.

Publisher:

JAI Press,

Copyright Date:

1987

Description:

ix, 251 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Religion--Comparative studies.
Religion and sociology.

Other Authors:

Tomasson, Richard F., 1928-

Notes:

Includes indexes to vols. 6-10 of Comparative social research. Includes bibliographies.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Religion and belief systems. Puritan radicalism and the new religious movements : seventeenth-century England and contemporary America / Stephen A. Kent -- The paradox of modern evangelical Christianity : the United States and Sweden / David O. Moberg -- American adaptations of Hinduism / Lucy G. DuPertuis -- Toward a redefinition of 'sect' and 'cult' : orthodox Judaism in the United States and Israel / H. Herbert Danzger -- Traditional beliefs in a modern world : West Germany and the Netherlands / Albert Felling, Jan Peters, and Osmund Schreuder -- Religious change in the five Scandinavian countries, 1930-1980 / Göran Gustafsson -- pt. 2. Theoretical and methodological issues. An application of status politics : alcohol prohibition in India and the United States / N. Prabha Unnithan and Jay Corzine -- Two or twenty countries : contrasting styles of comparative research / James M. Jasper -- Constructing cross-national data sets : theoretical issues and practical methods / Dane Archer.

Series:

Comparative social research. v. 10

ISBN:

9780892327379
0892327375

OCLC:

(OCoLC)18184216

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)