Cover -- Half Title page, Title Page, Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: On Becoming and Being a Scholar -- Section I. Theory and Methodology -- 1. A Taxonomy of Religious Experience -- 2. A Theory of Revelations -- 3. Micro Foundations of Religion: A Revised Theory -- 4. Religious Effects: In Praise of "Idealistic Humbug" -- 5. Putting an End to Ancestor Worship -- 6. Discovering Data on Religion -- Section II. Secularization -- 7. Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation -- 8. Secularization, Revival, and Experimentation -- 9. A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe -- 10. Secularization, R.I.P. -- Section III. Religion and Society -- 11. Religion and Conformity: Reaffirming a Sociology of Religion -- 12. Religion and the Moral Order: An Introduction -- 13. Physiology and Faith: Addressing the "Universal" Gender Difference in Religious Commitment -- 14. Upper Class Asceticism: Social Origins of Ascetic Movements and Medieval Saints -- 15. Conversion to Latin American Protestantism and the Case for Religious Motivation -- Section IV. Religious Movement -- 16. Church and Sect -- 17. Cult Formation: Three Compatible Models -- 18. Networks of Faith: Interpersonal Bonds and Recruitment to Cults and Sects -- 19. Rebellion, Repressive Regimes, and Religious Movements -- 20. Why Religious Movements Succeed or Fail: A Revised General Model -- Section V. Social Theory and History -- 21. Why "Mainline" Denominations Decline -- 22. One True God" An Introduction -- 23. Extracting Social Scientific Models from Mormon History -- 24. God, Ritual, and Social Science -- 25. Cities of God: An Introduction -- 26. Revelation, Cultural Evolution, and Discovering God -- 27. God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades -- 28. The Triumph of Christianity -- Notes -- References.

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