Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Settling into the Discipline: Thinking Sociologically -- 2 Religion in Sociological Perspective -- 3 The Classical Legacy: Marx, Durkheim and Weber -- 4 Religion Down and Out? Theories of Secularization -- 5 Neither Down nor Out? Ongoing Religiosity in Modern Society -- 6 Religion, Ideology and Gender -- 7 'In with the New': New Religiosities in Sociological Perspective -- 8 Religion for Sale: Market Dynamics and Contemporary Religiosity -- 9 Religious Fundamentalisms: Religion Ancient and Modern? -- 10 Globalization, Religion and Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index.