Introduction: A Sociologist Thinks about Religion
1. Sociology’s Default View of Religion
2. The Default View’s Historical-Cultural Origins
3. To China: A Confucian Alternative
4. China Applied: Feeding the Holy Community
5. To North Africa: An Arab Judge Looks at History
6. Ibn Khaldūn Applied: Medjugorje and the Islamic State
7. To the American Southwest: Navajo Ritual and the Experience of Time
8. Navajo Ritual Applied: World-Healing at the Catholic Worker
9. Are We Stealing the Elgin Marbles?