Part of the excellent "Modern Britain" series, Bruce packs a lot of clearly-written, accessible, information into this slim volume. There's coverage of the major syllabus areas (religious institutions, secularisation, forms of religion, multi-culturalism etc.) as well as an excellent, interesting, section on New Age / New Religious Movements. The design is solid, with good use of box-outs, tables and revision charts and the text is divided into short, well-defined, sections that makes it easy to dip into for revision / discussion purposes. All-in-all, a highly-recommended text.

Another welcome (and much-needed) addition to the "Sociology in Action" series, "Investigating Religion" covers the main sections of the AEB syllabus (IBS students will still find it useful even though it doesn't really address the "Ideology" aspect of their syllabus directly). These include defining and measuring religion, NRM's and secularisation and the relationship between religion, gender and ethnicity. The by-now mandatory section on "post-modernism" is also, of course, included. Overall, probably the best available A-level text on religion.

Part of the "Access to Sociology" series, this is another well-written, neatly-designed, student-friendly text that continues the excellent tradition of this series. The text combines coverage of major syllabus themes with activities designed to encourage students to apply knowledge gained from the text. Each section concludes with a Study Guide covering group work exercises, coursework suggestions (with useful hints about how to proceed) and practice questions. Used as both a course and revision text, "Religion" (in common with the rest of the series) offers excellent value-for-money and should be investigated immediately if you're after a clear, concise, overview of this area of the course.