Welcome to the Companion Website!

This site is intended to enhance your use of Religion in Sociological Perspective, sixth edition by Keith Roberts and David Yamane. Please note that all the materials on this site are especially geared toward maximizing your understanding of the material. 

This fully updated Sixth Edition students to the basic theories and methods in the field, and shows them how to apply these analytic tools to new groups they encounter. The authors explore three interdependent subsystems of religion—meaning, structure, and belonging—and their connections to the larger social structure. While they cover the major theoretical paradigms of the field and employ various middle-range theories to explore specific processes, they use the open systems model as a single unifying framework to integrate the theories and enhance student understanding.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge Keith Roberts and David Yamane for writing an excellent text and creating the materials on this site.  Special thanks are also due to Samuel Zalanga of Bethel University College of Arts & Sciences for creating some of the ancillaries on this site.