Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion: Volume 3: New Methods in the Sociology of Religion

Ole Riis is professor of sociology of religion at the Department of Religion, Philosophy and History, University of Agder, Norway. He participates in the Norwegian doctoral school on Religion, Values and Society, where he co-ordinates the regular course on philosophy for science and methodology. He has lectured on research design and methodoogy at several universities and doctoral courses. He has participated in several international research projects based on both qualitative and quantitative methods, such as the Nordic studies of religious changes sine 1938, the European Values Survey and Religious and Moral Pluralism. Beyond studies in sociology of religion, his publication includes several methodological contributions such as texbooks in demography, in applied methods of social research, mixed methods. Several publications have adressed methods for sociology of religion. One of his latest publications, A Sociology of Religious Emotion (w. Linda Woodhead, Oxford University Press 2010) includes an appendix about how the subject may be studied empirically. His most recent publications on methodology addresses criteria of quality in qualitative research. He is presently engaged in issues on epistemology and research design for complex, social problems.

Contributors include: Peter Achterberg, Nancy T. Ammerman, Luigi Berzano, Wiktor-Mach Dobroslawa, Carlo Genova, Paul Heelas, Dick Houtman, Tim Hutchings, Lois Lee, Alexander-Kenneth Nagel, Uzi Rebhun, Ole Riis, James V. Spickard, Christos N. Tsironis, and Roman R. Williams