What Happens When We Practice Religion? (eBook)

Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life

Robert Wuthnow (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691201276 (ISBN)

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An exploration of the interdisciplinary methods used to understand religious practiceReligion is commonly viewed as something that people practice, whether in the presence of others or alone. But what do we mean exactly by "e;practice"e;? What approaches help to answer this question? What Happens When We Practice Religion? delves into the central concepts, arguments, and tools used to understand religion today.Throughout the past few decades, the study of religion has shifted away from essentialist arguments that grandly purport to explain what religion is and why it exists. Instead, using methods from anthropology, psychology, religious studies, and sociology, scholars now focus on what people do and say: their daily religious habits, routines, improvisations, and adaptations. Robert Wuthnow shows how four intersecting areas of inquiry-situations, intentions, feelings, and bodies-shed important light on religious practice, and he explores such topics as the role of religious experiences in sacred spaces, gendered social relationships, educational settings, the arts, meditation, and ritual.Suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses, What Happens When We Practice Religion? provides insights into the diverse ways that religion manifests in ordinary life.Summarizes the latest theories and empirical methods of religious practiceShows how the study of religion has changedIncludes chapters on theory, situations, intentions, feelings, and bodiesDraws from anthropology, psychology, religious studies, and sociologyAccessible for undergraduate and graduate courses

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Adornment • Affordance • affordances • Ambiguity • Asceticism • automaticity • awareness • Buddhism • Cambridge University Press • Case study • Catholicism • Christian • Christianity • Christian Smith • Churches • Church Service • Clifford Geertz • Clothing • Competition • conformity • Congregations • Consciousness • Consideration • David Hall • Deliberation • eating • Emile Durkheim • Émile Durkheim • Epistemology • Everyday life • Feeling rules • God • Habitus (sociology) • Hinduism • home altar • human behavior • ideal type • Illustration • Indication (medicine) • Intention • intentionality • Irreligion • Islam • John Dewey • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion • Judaism • Judith Butler • Literature • lived religion • Mary Douglas • Max Weber • meal • Modernity • Modern Paganism • Morality • Nancy Ammerman • narrative • New Religious Movement • On Practice • On Religion • Oppression • Orthodox Judaism • Oxford University Press • participant • Pentecostalism • pentecostal worship • Person • Peter Berger • Pierre Bourdieu • Place of Worship • Pornography • Practice Theory • Pragmatism • praying • Princeton University Press • Protestantism • Psychology • purity and danger • quaker • Qualitative research • Religion • religions and culture • Religious beliefs • Religious Community • religious discipline • religious embodiment • religious experience • religious improvisation • religious motivations • Religious Organization • religious phenomena • religious power • religious sanctuaries • Religious Studies • Religious symbol • religious values • rhetoric • Robert Bellah • Routledge • Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes • Saints • Secularization • Seminar • social actions • Social constructionism • Social Practice • Social Psychology • social relation • Social Science • Social Structure • Social Theory • sociological theory • Sociology • Sociology of Religion • Spirituality • Steve Bruce • Structuring • Suffering • Talal Asad • Testimonial • Theodicy • Theology • The Other Hand • The Practice of Everyday Life • The Various • Thomas Luckmann • Thought • Understanding • University of California Press • Women in Islam • year • Yoga
• ISBN-13: 9780691201276 / 9780691201276