第14届中美欧暑期宗教学高级研讨班招生简章

中国人民大学国际佛学研究中心

佛教与宗教学理论研究所
哲学院

宗教高等研究院
2017年2月20日

主讲教授及教学大纲

一、主讲教授简介
　　查韦斯教授为宗教社会学研究的著名学者，在哈佛大学社会学系获得博士学位，美国大型宗教场所调查项目（National Congregation Studies）主持人。在哈佛大学出版社、普林斯顿大学出版社、Sage等著名出版社出版专著5部；在Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion， Sociology of Religion，The American Journal of Sociology，Annual Review of Sociology， Review of Religious Research, American Sociological Review，Social Forces等核心期刊发表论文近百篇；担任American Journal of Sociology.; Contemporary Sociology; American Sociological Review;  Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion等10几个核心期刊的编委。研究主题包括：宗教场所与美国社会，宗教与社会运动，宗教组织。
二、课程目标
　　帮助学者了解宗教社会学的基本方法与理论；
　　帮助学者了解美国宗教场所的基本状况与变迁趋势；
　　帮助学者了解美国人宗教信仰的基本状况。
三、课程大纲与阅读材料：
　　In this course we will examine contemporary American religion, focusing especially on recent trends. We will examine changes in individual religiosity and in congregations, paying attention to methodological as well as empirical and theoretical issues. We will focus in detail on religious service attendance and the megachurch phenomenon. Finally, we will discuss two themes with theoretical relevance beyond American religion: religious conversion and the complex relationship between religious ideas and actions.

Outline

Days 1 and 2: American Religion: Individuals
Reading:
Chaves, Mark. 2017. American Religion: Contemporary Trends, 2 nd Edition. Princeton University Press. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 8.
Voas, David, and Mark Chaves. 2016. “Is the United States a Counterexample to the　Secularization Thesis?” American Journal of Sociology 121:1517-56.
Hadaway, C. Kirk, Penny Long Marler, and Mark Chaves. 1993. “What the Polls　Don't Show: A Closer Look at U.S. Church Attendance.” American Sociological　Review 58:741-752.
Brenner, Philip S. 2011. “Exceptional Behavior or Exceptional Identity?
Overreporting of Church Attendance in the U.S.” Public Opinion Quarterly
75:19-41.
Days 3 and 4: American Religion: Congregations
Reading:
Chaves, Mark, Mary Ellen Konieczny, Kraig Beyerlein, and Emily Barman. 1999.
“The National Congregations Study: Background, Methods, and Selected
Results.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38:458-476.
Chaves, Mark. “Religious Congregations.” Pp. 362-393 in The State of Nonprofit　America, Second Edition, ed. by Lester Salamon. Washington, DC: Brookings　Institution Press.
Chaves, Mark, and Alison Eagle. 2015. Religious Congregations in 21 st Century　America: A Report from the National Congregations Study. Durham: Department　of Sociology, Duke University. Available at
http://www.soc.duke.edu/natcong/Docs/NCSIII_report_final.pdf.
Chaves, Mark. 2006. “All Creatures Great and Small: Megachurches in Context.”
Review of Religious Research 47:329-346.
Chaves, Mark, and Alison J. Eagle. 2016. “Congregations and Social Services: An　Update from the Third Wave of the National Congregations Study.” Religions　7(5), article 55.
Fulton, Brad R. 2016. “Trends in Addressing Social Needs: A Longitudinal Study of　Congregation-Based Service Provision and Political Participation.” Religions　7(5), article 51.
Day #5: Two General Themes: Religious Conversion and Religious Consistency
Reading:
Lofland, John and Rodney Stark. 1969. “Becoming a World-Saver: A Theory of　Conversion to a Deviant Perspective.” American Sociological Review 30:862-875.
Snow, David A. and Cynthia L. Phillips. 1980 “The Lofland-Stark Conversion Model:A Critical Reassessment.” Social Problems 27:430-447.
Snow, David A. and Richard Machalek. 1984. "The Sociology of Conversion." Annual　Review of Sociology 10:167-90.
Chaves, Mark. “Rain Dances in the Dry Season: Overcoming the Religious
Congruence Fallacy.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49: 1-14.

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