Making Sense of the World of Faith: Recent Trends in Data, Methods and Explanations of Religious Change

Authors

  • Andrew Singleton Deakin University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.v29i1.29202

Keywords:

Religious change, research methods, social change

Abstract

Todd Johnson and Brian Grim, The World’s Religion in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, 2013, pp. xxiii + 376, ISBN: 9780470674543 (cloth). André Droogers and Anton van Harskamp (eds.), Methods for the Study of Religious Change: From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies. Equinox, Sheffield, 2014, pp. vi + 207, ISBN: 978178190434 (pbk). Peter Kivisto, Religion and Immigration. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2014, pp. x + 211, ISBN: 9780745641706 (pbk).

Author Biography

  • Andrew Singleton, Deakin University
    Andrew Singleton, PhD, is a sociologist in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Deakin University, Australia. His research interests in the sociology of religion include secularisation, youth religion, personal belief and alternative religions. Singleton has published extensively in these areas both nationally and internationally. He is author of Religion, Culture and Society: A Global Approach (SAGE 2014) and co author (with Michael Mason and Ruth Webber) of The Spirit of Generation Y: Young People’s Spirituality in a Changing Australia (Garrett Publishing 2007), a book about the first national study of youth religion and spirituality in Australia.

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Published

2016-08-30

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Review Essay

License

Equinox Publishing Ltd.

How to Cite

Singleton, A. (2016). Making Sense of the World of Faith: Recent Trends in Data, Methods and Explanations of Religious Change. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 29(1), 94-107. https://doi.org/10.1558/jasr.v29i1.29202