Library Guides: Gender, Race, and Identity: Religious Studies

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Sociology Database
Sponsored by: Beckwith Memorial Endowment.
Full-text coverage of core titles in culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, and other disciplines within sociology and social work. 1985 - present.

Culture and Religion
Interdisciplinary journal seeking an engagement between scholars working across a range of disciplinary fields, including anthropology, cultural studies, critical theory and gender studies, and postcolonial studies.
Critical Research on Religion
International journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion. Engages in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as the critical study of religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature.
Religion and American Culture
Devoted to promoting the ongoing scholarly discussion of the nature, terms, and dynamics of religion in America, exploring the interplay between religion and other spheres of American culture.

America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity by Robert Wuthnow
ISBN: 9780691134116
Publication Date: 2007
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States. This book looks not only at how we have adapted to diversity in the past, but at the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding to today's religious diversity.
Lived Religion by Meredith B. McGuire
ISBN: 9780195368338
Publication Date: 2008
Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the many, seemingly mundane, ways that individuals practice their religions and develop their spiritual lives. By examining the many eclectic and creative practices -- of body, mind, emotion, and spirit -- that have been invisible to researchers, it offers a fuller and more nuanced understanding of contemporary religion.