Introduction : on sociological self-reflection / Titus Hjelm and Phil Zuckerman
A life in religious communities / Nancy Ammerman
Stranger in a strange land / William Sims Bainbridge
Doing sociology : confessions of a professional stranger / Eileen Barker
Constructing religion : serendipity and skepticism / James a. Beckford
Straddling boundaries : disciplines, theories, methods, and continents / Peter Beyer
Work and adventure: from poetry to sociology of religion / Irena Borowik
Unintended consequences biographical and sociological / Steve Bruce
Serendipity in the study of religion and society / Mark Chaves
Thinking sociologically about religion : discerning and explaining pattern / Grace Davie
Hurdling over borders : reflections on my intellectual trajectory / Karel Dobbelaere
Counting and accounting for worldviews : doing surveys and social research on four continents
Barry Kosmin
My specific form of disorientation / Robert Orsi
Engaged faith; my own and of those I study / Wade Clark Roof
Studying Protestantism in a Catholic and secular context : lessons for a comparative sociology of religion / Jean-Paul Willaime
Side roads and detours : a narrative reconstruction about studying religion / Robert Wuthnow.