Preface (William H. Swatos, Jr) -- Introduction (Anthony J. Blasi) -- 1. Early Dissertations in American Sociology of Religion (Anthony J. Blasi) -- 2. The Theoretical Trajectory (Doyle Paul Johnson) -- 3. The Protestant Ethic Thesis as American Sociology of Religion (William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto) -- 4. The Emergence of Mormon Studies in the Social Sciences (Armand L. Mauss) -- 5. The Sociological Study of American Catholicism: Past, Present, and Future (James C. Cavendish) -- 6. Buddhism under Study (Joseph B. Tamney) -- 7. Women, Gender, and Feminism in the Sociology of Religion: Theory, Research, and Social Action (Nancy Nason-Clark and Barbara Fisher-townsend) -- 8. A Sociological Analysis of Latino Religions: The Formation of the Theoretical Binary and Beyond (Alberto López Pulido) -- 9. The Sociology of New Religious Movements (E. Burke Rochford, Jr) -- 10. Globalization and the Sociology of Religion in America: Some Representative Perspectives (John H. Simpson) -- Contributors.