Section 4. Textual approaches ; New approaches to the problem of translation in the study of religion / Alan Williams
The use of electronic media in the study of sacred texts / Gordon D. Newby
New approaches: Literary theory / Dawne McCance.

Section 5. Comparative approaches ; Comparison in the study of religion / William E. Paden
New approaches to the study of syncretism / Luther H. Martin and Anita Maria Leopold
Performance theory and the study of ritual / Ronald L. Grimes
New approaches to the study of religious dance / Helga Barbara Gundlach
Human rights: An important and challenging new field for the study of religion / Rosalind I.J. Hackett.

Section 6. Social sciences ; A survey of advances in the sociology of religion (1980-2000) / Liliane Voyé
Assessing secularization theory / Karel Dobbelaere
Urbanization and religion / Robert Kisala
Religion and diaspora / Steven Vertovec
Approaches to the study of religion in the media / Alf G. Linderman
Beyond "Church and State": Advances in the study of religion and law / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.

Section 7. Cognition and cross-cultural psychology ; Cognitive approaches to the study of religion / Armin W. Geertz
The naturalness of religious concepts: An emerging cognitive science of religion / Justin L. Barrett
Psychoanalyzing prehistory: Struggling with the unrecorded past / David A. Warburton
Conclusion / Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne.