William H. Swatos

Implicit Religious Assumptions within the Resurgence of Civil Religion in the USA since 9/11

I’m a Believer—But I’ll Be Damned If I’m Religious: Belief and Religion in the Greater Copenhagen Area—A Focus Group Study, by Ina Rosen. Lund Studies in Sociology of Religion, Volume 8. Lunds Universitet, 2009, 196pp, pb., NPG. ISBN-10: 9197476056.

Toward a General Theory of Action: Theoretical Foundations for the Social Sciences , by Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils , 3rd edn. Edison, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007 [2001]. 265pp., Pb.

29.95, ISBN 9780765807182

Religion and Everyday Life, by Stephen Hunt Abingdon: Routledge, 2005.ISBN 0-415-35154-5. Pbk.

Revisiting the Sacred

Review of From Civil to Political Religion by Marcella Cristi, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation by Carolyn Marvin and David W. Ingle and Perspectives on Civil Religion by Gerald Parsons

Meaning and Contradiction

Review of Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity by Talal Asad

Review of God Save the Queen: The Spiritual Dimension of Monarchy by Ian Bradley