pt. I MAKING SENSE OF RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES -- 1.What is Religion and Spirituality? -- 2.Modern Times: Classical Approaches in the Social Scientific Study of Religion -- 3.Twentieth-Century Challenges, Twentieth-Century Thinkers -- 4.Towards Contemporary Theorizing: Secularization, the `Religious Economy' and Globalization -- 5.Studying Contemporary Religion: Methods and Data -- pt. II WINDS OF CHANGE: RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD -- 6.Post-Christian Nations? Christianity's Decline in Great Britain, Australia and Canada -- 7.One Nation Under God? American `Exceptionalism' -- 8.Christian Vitality? Asia-Pacific, Africa and Latin America -- 9.Buddhism and Hinduism in a Globalized World -- 10.The Rise of the Global Ummah? Recent Trends in Islam -- 11.`Lived' Religion in Everyday Life -- 12.The End of Religion? The New Atheism and Secularism --

13.The Future of Religion? Young People, Religion and Spirituality.