Making Sense of the World of Faith: Recent Trends in Data, Methods and Explanations of Religious Change
Issue: Vol 29 No. 1 (2016)
Journal: Journal for the Academic Study of Religion
Subject Areas: Religious Studies Buddhist Studies Islamic Studies Biblical Studies
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: Andrew Singleton
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