Book Reviews

Roman R. Williams Originally published on April 6, 2015 in Sociology of Religion. I have anticipated Katie Day’s book from the moment in 2010 that I viewed the narrated slideshow that showcases her research of religion in an urban context. The culmination of eight years…

Roman R. Williams Originally published on August 23, 2016 in Sociology of Religion. Alexander Riley’s Angel Patriots is an engaging account of the cultural processes through which the meanings, narratives, and memory of United Flight 93 are constructed and reconstructed. He writes about something more…

Roman R. Williams Originally published on March 12, 2014 in Sociology of Religion. The potential of visual research methods—image-based techniques used to collect, analyze, and present data—in the sociology of religion is vast, but largely untapped. This comes as a surprise, however, given the visual,…

Roman R. Williams Originally published on May 13, 2013 in Sociology of Religion. In Places of Faith, Scheitle and Finke introduce readers to what they consider to be some of the most distinctive and important features of religion in America through an account of their…