Johnston / Singh Interpreting Religion

Making Sense of Religious Lives
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1164-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

Reihe: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology

This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion.

Scholars from the US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes in the study of religion – from identity, discourse and power to ritual, emotion, and embodiment. Authors examine dynamic intersections of race, gender, history, and the present within the religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as among the non-religious.

Cutting boldly across religious traditions and paradigms, the book investigates areas of harmony and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a richer understanding of the meanings of religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Erin F.

Singh, Vikash

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion ~ Erin F. Johnston

1. Making Sense of Queer Christian Lives ~ Jodi O'Brien

2. Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Religion, Spirituality and Ritual among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors ~ Janet Jacobs

3. Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion ~ Daniel Winchester

4. Mind the Gap: What Ethnographic Silences Can Teach Us ~ Rebecca Kneale Gould

5. The Public Sphere and Presentations of the Collective Self: Being Shia in Modern India ~ Aseem Hasnain

6. Meaning and Power: Toward a Critical Discursive Sociology of Religion ~ Titus Hjelm

7. The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multicultural Reality ~ George Lundskow

8. Totalitarianism as Religion ~ Yong Wang

9. The Heritage Spectrum: A More Inclusive Typology for the Age of Global Buddhism ~ Jessica Marie Falcone

10. Interpreting Nonreligion ~ Evan Stewart

Afterword: Approaching Religions – Some Refl ections on Meaning, Identity, and Power ~ Vikash Singh

Über Autor(innen)

Johnston, Erin F.
Erin F. Johnston is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University.

Singh, Vikash
Vikash Singh is Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University.

Erin F. Johnston is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University.

Vikash Singh is Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University.