What do we mean by the team religion? -- A social scientific perspective on religion -- Religion in the larger society: macro perspectives -- The cultural construction of religion: experience, myth, ritual, symbols, and worldview -- Becoming and being religion -- Conversion and switching -- Organized religion: churches, sects, denomonations, and "Cults" -- Organized religion: denominationalism and congregationalism -- Religion and class stratification -- Religion and race -- Religion, gender, and sexuality -- Religion, inequality, and social activism -- Secularization: religion in decline or in transformation? -- Religion outside the (God) box -- Religion and globalization

1. Religion and sociology -- Textbook