Interpreting religion : making sense of religious lives /
This collection brings together a diverse range of interpretivist perspectives to find fresh takes on the meanings of religion. Cutting across paradigms and traditions, experts from the UK, US, and India apply different approaches to engagement with beliefs and themes, including identity, ritual, an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Interpretive Lenses in Sociology.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Series page
- Interpreting Religion: Making Sense of Religious Lives
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editors' Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
- On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
- Notes
- References
- Introduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion
- Scholarship as interpretation
- Interpreting religion and beyond
- Note
- References
- 1 Making Sense of Queer Christian Lives
- Shifting narratives
- Rewriting the script
- Reconciliation scripts
- Apologetics
- Mosaic expansion/radical inclusion
- Reconciliation scripts in context
- Beyond contradiction?
- The significance of affirmative communities
- Sociotemporal context and the articulated/actualized self
- Self-actualization quests and social movements
- Notes
- References
- 2 The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Religion, Spirituality, and Ritual among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
- Methodology and the researcher as witness
- Survivorship and the intergenerational transmission of religious beliefs
- Belief in a higher power
- Descendant spirituality and the turn toward immanence
- Ritual: emotion and innovation among descendants of survivors
- Culture bearing and the reinvention of Jewish ritual among descendants
- Conclusion
- References
- 3 Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion
- Bodies and souls: grasping the corporeal effects of religious praxis
- From the somatic to the symbolic: interpreting practices from within
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 4 Mind the Gap: What Ethnographic Silences Can Teach Us
- Silence at the shared table
- Sitting with silence
- The sounds of difficult silence
- Self-silencing
- Conclusion: silence as presence
- Notes
- References
- 5 The Public Sphere and Presentations of the Collective Self: Being Shia in Modern India
- The Shia in India
- Sociology of religion and collective identity
- Identity and boundary making in the public
- Sectarian controversies and the Piggot Committee: prior to 1919
- Between Khilafat and freedom: 1919-47
- Hindutva and Islamophobia in contemporary India: 1990s and beyond
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 6 The Power of Meaning: Toward a Critical Discursive Sociology of Religion
- Discourse as social practice
- Meaning in the service of power
- The "folk church" as ideology1
- Church and state, according to the Church
- "Folk church" in parliamentary politics
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 7 The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multicultural Reality
- White supremacy in the United States
- Whiteness as religion
- Decisive moments when white people embraced racism
- Reconstruction after the American Civil War
- Twentieth-century labor movements
- The Evil Other
