Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 2 (2011)

Patrick Michel, sociologist and political scientist, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Former deputy scientific director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences at CNRS, he is the director of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs. Enzo Pace is Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Religion at the University of Padova (Italy), where he chairs the Department of Sociology. He is Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Past-President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR). Contributors include: Peter Achterberg, Lubna Al-Kazi, Stef Aupers, Edward Bailey, Peter Beyer, Shun-hing Chan, Franco Garelli, Alessandra L. González, Zhaohui George Hong, Dick Houtman, Christophe Jaffrelot, Willem de Koster, Mohammed Maarouf, Marion Maddox, Ricardo Mariano, Peter Mascini, Patrick Michel, Ari Pedro Oro, Enzo Pace, Johan Roeland, Jörg Stolz, Elena Zapponi, and Jeroen van der Waal.

The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us?