Mellor, Philip.

Sociology of the sacred: religion, embodiment and social change/ Philip Mellor and Chris Shilling. - Los Angeles: Sage, 2014. - 202 p. ; 25 cm. - (Theory, culture & society) .

1 Introduction

2 Modalities of the sacred

3 Other-worldly and this-worldly intoxication

4 The bio-medicalization of pain

5 The aestheticization of charisma

6 The materilization of eroticism

7 Instauring the religious habitus

8 Conclusion.

9781446272237


Religion and sociology

306.6 / MEL/S