Professor Grace Davie
Publications
Books
with A Bäckström, N Edgardh, P Pettersson, Welfare and Religion in 21st century Europe (Volume Two): Gendered, Religious and Social Change, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2011.
with A Bäckström, Welfare and Religion in 21st century Europe (Volume One): Configuring the Connections, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2010.
with P Berger, E Fokas, Religious America, Secular Europe: A Theme and Variations, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008.
The Sociology of Religion, London, Sage, 2007.
with P Heelas, L Woodhead, Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003.
Europe, the Exceptional Case. Parameters of Faith in the Modern World, Darton, Longman and Todd, 2002.
Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without Belonging, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994.
with G Ahern, Inner City God: The Nature of Belief in the Inner City, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1987.
Chapters
Understanding religion in Western Europe: A continually evolving mosaic, in Cumper P,Lewis T (eds) Religion, Human Rights and Secular Society in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013
Religious America, secular Europe: Framing the debate, in Ben-Rafael E,Sternberg Y (eds) World Religions and Multiculturalism: A Dialectic Relation, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 41-62
Resacralization, in Turner B (eds) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010, 160-178
An English example: Exploring the via media in the twenty-first century, in Berger P (eds) Between Relativism and Fundamentalism, Grand Rapids, MI: Eeerdmans, 2010, 35-55
Thinking broadly and thinking deeply: Two examples of the study of religion in the modern world, in Brown C,Snape M (eds) Secularisation in the Christian World, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010, 219-232
Thinking sociologically about religion: Contexts, concepts and clarifications, in Barker E (eds) The Centrality of Religion in Social Life: Essays in Honour of James A. Beckford, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 15-28
Vicarious religion: A methodological challenge, in Ammerman N (eds) Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives, Oxford: OUP, 2007, 21-36
Pluralism, tolerance and democracy: Theory and practice in Europe, in Banchoff T (eds) Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism, Oxford University Press, 2007, 223-242
'The sociology of religion', in Segal R (eds) The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, 171-192
Religious minorities in France: A Protestant perspective, in Beckford J,Richardson J (eds) Challenging Religion: Essays in Honour of Eileen Barker, London: Routledge, 2003, 159-169
'Seeing Salvation: The use of data as text in the sociology of religion', in Avis P (eds) Public Faith? The State of Religious Belief and Practice in Britain, London: SPCK, 2003, 28-44
'The evolution of the sociology of religion: Theme and variations', in Dillon M (eds) Handbook for the Sociology of Religion, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 61-75
Women's religiosity, in Smelser ,S ,Baltes (eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, vol. 24, Pargamon, 2001, 16532-16534
The persistence of institutional religion in modern Europe, in Woodhead L,Heelas P,Martin D (eds) Peter Berger and the Study of Religion, Routledge, 2001, 101-111
European religion, in Smelser S,Baltes P (eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences, vol. 7, Pargamon, 2001, 4925-4929
'French Protestants and the general theory, in Percy M,Walker A (eds) Restoring the Image. Essays on Religion and Society in Honour of David Martin, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001, 69-81
Journal articles
Thinking sociologically about religion: A step change in the debate, ARDA Guiding Paper Series, 2011 Publisher Website
Vicarious religion: A response, Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 2, no. 25, 2010, 261-267
Religion in Europe in the 21st century: The factors to take into account, European Journal of Sociology, vol. 47, no. 2, 2006, 271-296 DOI
'Is Europe an exceptional case, The Hedgehog Review, vol. 8, 2006, 23-34
'Borders, boundaries and frontiers in the study of religion: A sociological response', Social Compass, vol. 53, no. 2, 2006, 243-249
From obligation to consumption: A framework for reflection in northern Europe, Political Theology, vol. 6, no. 3, 2005, 281-301
New approaches in the sociology of religion: A Western perspective, Social Compass, vol. 51, no. 1, 2004, 73-84
Creating an agenda in the sociology of religion: Common sources/ Different pathways, Sociology of Religion, vol. 65, no. 4, 2004, 323-340 DOI
with L Woodhead, 'Predicting religion: Four case studies', Religion, vol. 32, no. 1, 2002, 1-50
Praying alone: Church-going in Britain and social capital, Journal for Contemporary Religion, vol. 17, no. 3, 2002, 329-335
Global civil religion: A European perspective, Sociology of Religion, vol. 62, no. 4, 2001, 455-473
