Identity

Abstract

This chapter provides a broad summary of the sociology of religious identity. I begin by considering strategies to account for religious identity common in quantitative studies, and then address shortcomings of these approaches with attention to how identity functions in specific traditions. I next move to a consideration of religious mobility and the complexity of religious identity in pluralistic societies. Finally, I consider non-religion and end with a call for studies that are more global and comparative in their conceptualization of and methodologies for studying identity.