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AAcquiva, Sabino
Adaptation
Adolescence/Youth Culture
Adventism
Affective Commitment
African American Religion
Age
Alcoholics Anonymous
Alienation
Allport, Gordon
Alternation
American Academy of Religion
American Psychological Association, Section on the Psychology of Religion
American Religion
American Sociological Association, Section on the Sociology of Religion
Amish
Ammerman, Nancy T.
Anabaptists
Ancestor Worship
Animism
Anomie
Anthropology of Religion
Anticult Movement
Apostasy and Defection
Appalachia
Apparition
Archives de Science Sociales des Religions
Asceticism
Asian Religion
Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Astrology
Atheism
Attitudes
Attribution Theory
Authoritarianism
BBaptists
Barker, Eileen
Barrett, Donald N.
Batson, C. Daniel
Becker, Ernst
Beckford, James A.
Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin
Beliefs
Bellah, Robert N.
Bendix, Richard
Berger, Peter L.
Bergson, Henri
Bibby, Reginald
Biblical Studies
Blizzard, Samuel
Bogardus, Emory
Book of Mormon
Bourdieu, Pierre
Brainwashing
Brewer, Earl D.C.
Bricolage
Bromley, David G.
Brophy, Mary Ligouri
Brunner, Edmund S. de
Buber, Martin
Buddhism
Burhoe, Ralph
CCampbell, Joseph
Campicje, Ronald J.
Canadian Study of Religion
Capps, Gordon
Cargo Cults
Caribbean Religions
Carroll, Jackson
Casuistry
Chalfant, H. Paul
Change Movements
Change
Chanting
Charisma
Charismatic Movement
Christian Right
Christian School Movement
Christian Social Thought
Christian Sociology
Christianity
Church-Sect Theory
Church-State Relations (U.S.)
Cipriani, Roberto
Civil Disobedience
Civil Religion
Civil Rights
Clark, Walter Houston
Clemens, Alphonse
Clergy
Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive Models
Commitment
Communal Groups/ Religious Community
Communitarianism
Community
Community Organization
Compassion
Compensators
Conflict
Confucianism
Congregationalism
Conscience
Contemporary Jewry
Contingency
Contributors
Conversion
Crimes
Cult
Curtis, Jack H.
DDashefsky, Arnold
Davidson, James D.
Death and Dying
Decision Making
Deferred Gratification
Definition of Religion
Demerath, N. Jay III
Democracy
Demythologizing
Deprivation Theory
Desroche, Henri
Deviance
Dialectics
Disciples of Christ
Disenchantment
Dittes, James E.
Divine Light Mission
Dobbelaere, Karel
Donovan, John D.
Dommsday Cult
Douglas, Mary
Douglass, H. Paul
Drugs
DuBois, W.E.B.
Dudley, Carl
Durkheim, Emile
EEbaugh, Helen Rose
Ecology Movement
Ecology of Religion
Ecumenism
Edwards, Johnathan
Eister, Allen W.
Elazar, Daniel
Elective Affinity
Encyclical
Engels, Friedrich
Episcopal Church
Equal Rights Amendment
Erikson, Erik
Eschatology
est
Ethics, Professional
Ethnocentrism
Ethos
Evaluation Research
Evangelicalism
Evans-Pritchard, E.E.
Evolution of Religion
Experience
FFaith Development
Family, The
Feminist Theory and Research
Feminist Theology
Feminization Thesis
Ferrarotti, Franco
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Finney, Charles Grandison
Fitzpatrick, Joseph P.
Folk Religion
Frazer, James G.
Frazier, E. Franklin
Freud, Sigmund
Friess, Horace L.
Fukuyama, Wilfred Cantwell
Functionalism
Fundamentalism
Funerals
Furfey, Paul H.
GGandhi, Mohandas K.
Gannon, Thomas M.
Garrett, William R.
Geertz, Clifford J.
Geffen, Rela Mintz
Gellner, Ernest
Gender
Gerontology
Gilligan, Carol
Globalization
Glock, Charles Young
Glossalalia
Goldstein, Sidney
Gorusch, Richard
Gramsci, Antonio
Great Awakenings
Greek and Roman Religions
Greeley, Andrew M.
Groups
Gruesser, Jeanine
Guilt
HHammond, Phillip E.
Hargrove, Barbara J.
Harte, Thomas J.
Healy, Mary Edward
Hegel, G.W.F.
Herberg, Will
Herskovitz, Melville
Hervieu-Léger, Danièle
Himmelfarb, Harry
Hinduism
Homans, George C.
Homosexuality
Hood, Ralph W., Jr.
Hughes, John E.
Human Rights
Hymns
IIdeology
Immanence
Implicit Religion
Individualism
International Society for Krishna Conciousness
Internet
Investments
Invisible Religion
Irreligion
Islam
JJarrett, William H.
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jesus People
Jewish-Christian Relations
Jews
Johnson, Benton
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Journal of Church and State
Judaism
KKane John J.
Kaslow, George W.
Kelley, Dean M.
Kelly, James R.
Kincheloe, Samuel C.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Klausner, Samuel Z.
Kluckhohn, Clyde
Koresh, David
Ku Klux Klan
LLaity
Lane, Ralph, Jr.
Language
Last Supper
Le Bras, Gabriel
Leadership
Lehman, Edward C., Jr.
Lenski, Gerhard
Levi-Strauss, Claude
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien
Lewsi, G. Douglass
Life Satisfaction
Lipset, Seymour Martin
Local-Cosmopolitan Distinction
Lofland, John
Long, Theodore E.
Luckmann, Thomas
Luhmann, Niklas
Lutheranism
MMainline Churches
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Marriage and Divorce
Martin, David
Marty, Martin E.
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Maslow, Abraham
Mass
Mauss, Marcel
Mayer, Egon
McCaffrey, Augustine D.
McGuire, Meredith B.
McNamara, Patrick H.
McNamara, Robert J.
Meaning
Mennonites
Mental Health
Merton, Robert K.
Metaphor
Methodism
Mihanovich, Clement S.
Millenarianism
Mills, C. Wright
Ministry
Missions/ Missiology
Mobility (Social)
Modernism
Mol, Hans
Moral Community
Moral Development
Morality
Mormonism
Motive
Mueller, Franz H.
Muller, Max
Mulvaney, Bernard G.
Mundie, Paul J.
Mundy, Paul
Murray, Raymond W.
Mysticism
NNation of Islam
National Council of Churches
Native Americans
Navin, Robert B.
Neal, Marie Augusta
Nelsen, Hart M.
Nelson, Benjamin
New Religious Movements
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Niebuhr, Richard H.
Nonofficial Religion
Nonrational Experience
Noyes, John Humphrey
Nuesse, C. Joseph
OOccupations
Orders
Organization Theory and Religious Organization
Orthodoxy
Other-Worldly
Otto, Rudolph
PParapsychology
Parish
Parsons, Talcott
Particularism
Peace
Peak Experiences
Pemberton, Prentiss
Pentecostalism
Peoples Temple
Perry, Everett L.
Phenomenology
Pilgrimage/Tourism
Pillarization
Plausibility
Pluralism
Politics
Pope, Liston
Popular Religion
Positivism
Postmodernism
Poverty
Practice
Premillenialism
Presbyterians
Progressivism
Protestant Ethic Thesis
Protestantism
Proudfoot, Wayne
Pruyser, Paul
Psychic Phenomena
Psychology of Religion
Public Opinion Polling
Public Religion
Purity
QQuasi-Religions
RRadcliffe-Brown, A.R.
Radicalism
Rajneesh Movement
Rational Choice Theory
Redfield, Robert
Reductionism
Reformation
Reiss, Paul J.
Religion
Religiosity
Religious Education
Religious Studies
Research Committee 22
Research Methods
Resource Mobilization
Review of Religious Research
Revitilization movements
Revolution
Rhetoric
Richardson, James T.
Rites of Passage
Ritual
Robertson, Pat
Robertson, Roland
Robinson, Leo
Rokeach, Milton
Roles
Roman Catholicism
Roof, Wade Clark
Ross, Eva Jenny
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Routinization
Ryan, John A.
SSacrifice
Salience
Salvation Army
Sapir, Edward
Satanism
Scherer, Ross P.
Schneider, Louis
Schnepp, Gerald J.
Schoenherr, Richard A.
School Prayer
Science and Religion
Scientology
Secondary Anxiety
Secular Religion
Secularization
Self-Denial
Seminaries and Seminarians
Sexism
Sexuality and Fertility
Shakers
Shinto
Shippey, Frederick A.
Sikhism
Silva Mind Control
Simmel, Georg
Simpson, John H.
Sklare, Marshall
Slavery
Smith, Joseph
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell
Smith, William Robertson
Snake-Handling Cults
Social Action
Social Compass
Social Control
Social Gospel
Social Integration
Social Justice
Social Movements
Social Psychology
Social Science and Religion
Socialization
Societe International de Sociologie des Religions
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review
Soka Gakki
Southernization
Spencer, Anthony
Spencer, Herbert
Spilka, Bernard
Spiritual Fronteirs Fellowship International
Spiritualism
Spirituality
Spiro, Melford
Spitzer, Allen
Stark, Rodney
Stark, Werner
Status
Stratification
Subsidiarity
Supernatural
Surrogates for Religion
Swanson, Guy E.
Symbolic realism
Symbols
Syncretism
Systems theory
TTamney, Joseph B.
Taoism
Tawney, R.H.
Technology
Televangelism
Teresa, Mother
Theodicy
Theology
Theosophy
Third World
Thomas, John L.
Tillich, Paul
Timascheff, Nicholasw S.
Tiryakian, Edward A.
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Transcendentalism
Troeltsch, Ernst
Turner, Victor
Two-Party Thesis
Tylor, Edward B.
UUltimacy
Unitarianism
VVatican II
Verbit, Mervin F.
Verscheure
Virgin Mary
Virginity
Virtuoso
Voodoo
Voye, Liliane
WWallace, Anthony F.C.
Wallace, Ruth A.
Wallis, Roy
Warner, R. Stephen
Waxman, Chaim I.
We-They Boundaries
Weber, Max
Well-Being
Wellness
Whitman, Lauris B.
Williams, J. Paul
Willigan, Walter
Wilmore, Gayraud
Wilson, Bryan R.
Winter, Jerry Alan
Witchcraft
Wood, James R.
Woods, Frances Jerome
Workers' Movements
World Christian Encyclopedia
World-System Theory
Wuthnow, Robert
X - Y - ZYoga
Young, Brigham
Zoroastrianism
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