Linda Woodhead
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Woodhead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodhead |
| SIGNATURE | WOODHEAD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Messy Methods in Researching Religion
This unique book investigates the real-world complexities, challenges, and mistakes that are often encountered when researching religion, values, and culture. Featuring the reflections of researchers from across the social sciences and humanities, it offers vivid accounts of designing and executing both small-scale and much larger projects. Some chapters describe in detail the process and rationale behind methodological decisions, including chall…
Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society
Congregational Studies in the UK
A Sociology of Prayer
Contents: Introduction: You never know. Prayer as enchantment, Giuseppe Giordan Prayer as practice: an interpretative proposal, Carlo Genova For youth, prayer is relationship, Michael C. Mason Pentecostal prayer as personal communication and invisible institutional work, Yannick Fer Transcendence and immanence in public and private prayer, Martin Stringer Prayer as a tool in Swedish Pentecostalism, Emir Mahieddin Contrasting regimes of Sufi praye…
Sociology of Prayer
Predicting Religion
Contents: Introduction, Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas and Grace Davie Secularization theory re-examined: Beyond European and American exceptionalisms: towards a global perspective, JosA(c) Casanova On secularization and its prediction: a self-examination, David Martin The evolutionary principle in the study of religion and society, Olivier Tschannen Predicting Christianity: The demise of Christianity in Britain, Steve Bruce Prediction and prophecy …
Religions in the Modern World
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 4 (2013)
For Marcel Mauss in his 1909 work "On Prayer", prayer is the essence of religion, religion's central point (2003[1909]). While Mauss reaches the definition of prayer as "..a religious rite which is oral and bears directly on the sacred" (2003:57) 1 , he also acknowledges the very broad and less definable aspects of prayer
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
Religion and Change in Modern Britain
This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945. A team of leading scholars provide a fresh analysis and overview, with a particular focus on diversity and change
Secular privilege, religious disadvantage
Judith Butler's paper 'Sexual Politics, Torture and Secular Time' (Butler 2008) makes an excellent point about the ways in which individual sexual freedoms can be used to negate the rights of vulnerable groups. She makes her case in relation to the Dutch citizenship test and the forms of torture devised for Muslim prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. As she points out, it is the rankest hypocrisy when freedoms are invoked for the purpose o…
The Spiritual Revolution
List of Plates.Preface.Introduction.1. Distinguishing Religion and Spirituality: Findings from Kendal.2. Testing the Spiritual Revolution Claim in Kendal.3. Evidence for a Spiritual Revolution: Britain and USA.4. Bringing the Sacred to Life: Explaining Secularization and Sacralization.5. Looking to the Future.Appendices.References.Index
Congregational studies in the UK
The editors of this volume have assembled the material contained within it in an attempt to recover the main lines of development of the history of congregational studies in the UK, to showcase some of the most interesting recent work in this sphere, and to take stock of congregational studies as a whole
Religions in the Modern World
This comprehensive guide offers an unrivalled introduction to recent work in the study of religion, from the religious traditions of Asia and the West, to new forms of religion and spirituality such as New Age.With an historical introduction to each religion and detailed analysis of its place in the modern world, Religions in the Modern World is ideal for newcomers to the study of religion. It incorporates case-studies and anecdotes, text extract…
Peter Berger and the study of religion
Peter Berger and the study of religion
Diana, The Making of a Media Saint
Diana, Princess of Wales, was no saint in the conventional Christian sense. Yet her status as an icon since her death is unequalled in British popular culture and images of her resonate beatitude. In this work, cultural critics discuss the myth of Diana - her work, her appeal, and her iconicity for scholars and general readers alike. They consider the Diana phenomenon as a symptom of the modern approach to religion, review television and cinema's…
Secular privilege, religious disadvantage
Judith Butler's paper 'Sexual Politics, Torture and Secular Time' (Butler 2008) makes an excellent point about the ways in which individual sexual freedoms can be used to negate the rights of vulnerable groups. She makes her case in relation to the Dutch citizenship test and the forms of torture devised for Muslim prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. As she points out, it is the rankest hypocrisy when freedoms are invoked for the purpose o…
Religion and Change in Modern Britain
This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945. A team of leading scholars provide a fresh analysis and overview, with a particular focus on diversity and change
Religions in the Modern World
This comprehensive guide offers an unrivalled introduction to recent work in the study of religion, from the religious traditions of Asia and the West, to new forms of religion and spirituality such as New Age.With an historical introduction to each religion and detailed analysis of its place in the modern world, Religions in the Modern World is ideal for newcomers to the study of religion. It incorporates case-studies and anecdotes, text extract…
Diana, The Making of a Media Saint
Diana, Princess of Wales, was no saint in the conventional Christian sense. Yet her status as an icon since her death is unequalled in British popular culture and images of her resonate beatitude. In this work, cultural critics discuss the myth of Diana - her work, her appeal, and her iconicity for scholars and general readers alike. They consider the Diana phenomenon as a symptom of the modern approach to religion, review television and cinema's…
Peter Berger and the study of religion
Peter Berger and the study of religion
Religions in the Modern World
This comprehensive guide offers an unrivalled introduction to recent work in the study of religion, from the religious traditions of Asia and the West, to new forms of religion and spirituality such as New Age.With an historical introduction to each religion and detailed analysis of its place in the modern world, Religions in the Modern World is ideal for newcomers to the study of religion. It incorporates case-studies and anecdotes, text extract…
Congregational studies in the UK
The editors of this volume have assembled the material contained within it in an attempt to recover the main lines of development of the history of congregational studies in the UK, to showcase some of the most interesting recent work in this sphere, and to take stock of congregational studies as a whole
The Spiritual Revolution
List of Plates.Preface.Introduction.1. Distinguishing Religion and Spirituality: Findings from Kendal.2. Testing the Spiritual Revolution Claim in Kendal.3. Evidence for a Spiritual Revolution: Britain and USA.4. Bringing the Sacred to Life: Explaining Secularization and Sacralization.5. Looking to the Future.Appendices.References.Index
Secular privilege, religious disadvantage
Judith Butler's paper 'Sexual Politics, Torture and Secular Time' (Butler 2008) makes an excellent point about the ways in which individual sexual freedoms can be used to negate the rights of vulnerable groups. She makes her case in relation to the Dutch citizenship test and the forms of torture devised for Muslim prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. As she points out, it is the rankest hypocrisy when freedoms are invoked for the purpose o…
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 4 (2013)
For Marcel Mauss in his 1909 work "On Prayer", prayer is the essence of religion, religion's central point (2003[1909]). While Mauss reaches the definition of prayer as "..a religious rite which is oral and bears directly on the sacred" (2003:57) 1 , he also acknowledges the very broad and less definable aspects of prayer
Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion
Religion and Change in Modern Britain
This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945. A team of leading scholars provide a fresh analysis and overview, with a particular focus on diversity and change
Religions in the Modern World
Congregational Studies in the UK
A Sociology of Prayer
Contents: Introduction: You never know. Prayer as enchantment, Giuseppe Giordan Prayer as practice: an interpretative proposal, Carlo Genova For youth, prayer is relationship, Michael C. Mason Pentecostal prayer as personal communication and invisible institutional work, Yannick Fer Transcendence and immanence in public and private prayer, Martin Stringer Prayer as a tool in Swedish Pentecostalism, Emir Mahieddin Contrasting regimes of Sufi praye…
Sociology of Prayer
Predicting Religion
Contents: Introduction, Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas and Grace Davie Secularization theory re-examined: Beyond European and American exceptionalisms: towards a global perspective, JosA(c) Casanova On secularization and its prediction: a self-examination, David Martin The evolutionary principle in the study of religion and society, Olivier Tschannen Predicting Christianity: The demise of Christianity in Britain, Steve Bruce Prediction and prophecy …
Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society
Messy Methods in Researching Religion
This unique book investigates the real-world complexities, challenges, and mistakes that are often encountered when researching religion, values, and culture. Featuring the reflections of researchers from across the social sciences and humanities, it offers vivid accounts of designing and executing both small-scale and much larger projects. Some chapters describe in detail the process and rationale behind methodological decisions, including chall…
Religion (9 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · 20th century (3 works)