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This anthology tells the story of shamanism in Eurasia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. It brings together 56 articles and book excerpts by anthropologists, psychologists, religious scholars and historians illustrating the variety of views on this subject.

Culture is an extremely complex and highly contested concept. These volumes introduce the reader to the multi-facets of the concept and the wide and often contradictory variety of interpretations that are placed upon it.

This set collects together the classic writings on sexuality from a social science perspective. Topics covered include the history of the study of sexuality, theoretical approaches, issues of gender and sexuality and recent developments.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Islam and the Media is a crucial work of reference. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital resource.

This major works collection surveys the nature of Muslim diasporas in the west from a sociological perspective, exploring the issues of migration, integration, identity, politics, Islamophobia, and radicalisation.

This collection is a study of Islamic thought and institutions that represents a critical introduction to the system of Islamic belief and practice from a social science perspective, emphasizing the global nature of Islam in the 20th century.

Assembles research to trace the concept of multiculturalism from long-standing arguments on tribal co-existence, humans rights and civil rights to the rights to recognition. This title explores the tensions between national, ethnic, and religious identity politics. It is suitable for scholars, students, and researchers.

A collection of seminal and influential articles, chapters, and extracts in the sociology of religion and related disciplines, it brings together material from conceptual and theoretical discussions and substantive areas, including historical religious systems, the world religious traditions, and religion in the contemporary world.

Transgression, conduct that breaks rules or exceeds boundaries, is a key idea for sociologists, anthropologists and cultural theorists, and a major feature of postmodern thought. This book presents a history of ideas, a resume of major contributory theorists, and a discussion of significant moments and substantive concerns of various debates.

Offering writings in Middle East studies by renowned scholars and by the new generation of scholars of Islam and gender, this collection includes a wide variety of cases from Middle Eastern and Islamic societies. By including case-based articles, the collection highlights the clear links between concepts and theories and actual practices.

There is a huge and ever-growing interest in New Religious Movements (NRMs), sects and cults, from Aum Shinrykyo to Waco to Falun Gong. This collection provides the historical and cultural contexts within which to view current trends.

This collection offers a uniquely comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides an indespensible reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

This collection provides an invaluable resource for the burgeoning field of sports studies. It offers a selection of classic works and more recent ground-breaking journal articles on the sociology of sport.

The aim of this collection is to bring together the principal sources in the development of the techniques of social network analysis.

This set brings together published articles, papers and book chapters that are central to an informed understanding of race and ethnicity today

This collection includes essays by all the main thinkers on modernity, such as Marx, Parsons, Mannheim, Giddens, Bourdieu and Adorno, as well as previously unseen material from lesser-known figures.

Here John Scott brings together the central theoretical contributions to the debate on class and status as aspects of stratification - an invaluable one-stop resource for all students of sociology.

The state is a concept surrounded with much dispute. What exactly is the state? Does it act impartially? What changes has it undergone? These three volumes provide a reliable and comprehensive guide to these questions.

This collection brings together the indispensable secondary literature. It includes a major introduction which explains why power is a key concept and guides the reader through the contrasting attempts to understand it.