Religion on the Edge

De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion

Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt, David Smilde (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2012
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780199938643 (ISBN)

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The thirteen essays in this volume offer a challenge to conventional scholarly approaches to the sociology of religion. They urge readers to look beyond congregational settings, beyond the United States, and to religions other than Christianity, and encourage critical engagement with religion's complex social consequences. By expanding conceptual categories, the essays reveal how aspects of the religious have always been part of allegedly non-religious spaces and show how, by attending to these intellectual blindspots, we can understand aspects of identity, modernity, and institutional life that have long been obscured. Religion on the Edge addresses a number of critical questions: What is revealed about the self, pluralism, or modernity when we look outside the U.S. or outside Christian settings? What do we learn about how and where the religious is actually at work and what its role is when we unpack the assumptions about it embedded in the categories we use?

Religion on the Edge offers groundbreaking new methodologies and models, bringing to light conceptual lacunae, re-centering what is unsettled by their use, and inviting a significant reordering of long-accepted political and economic hierarchies. The book shows how social scientists across the disciplines can engage with the sociology of religion. By challenging many of its long-standing empirical and analytic tendencies, the contributors to this volume show how their work informs and is informed by debates in other fields and the analytical purchase gained by bringing these many conversations together. Religion on the Edge will be a crucial resource for any scholar seeking to understand our post-modern, post-secular world.

CB: Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University; WC: Associate Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University; PL: Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College; DS: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia

Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Religion on the Edge: An Introduction ; Courtney Bender, Wendy Cadge, Peggy Levitt, David Smilde ; Part I. Rethinking Categories: Theoretical Approaches ; 1. Grappling with the Legacy of Modernity: Implications for the Sociology of Religion ; Manuel A. Vasquez ; 2. Beyond Cultural Autonomy in the Sociological Study of Religion ; David Smilde ; 3. Toward a Comparative Historical Sociology of Religious Politics ; Ates Altinordu ; 4. Religious Self-Constitution: A Relational Perspective ; Michal Pagis ; 5. Studying Public Religion: Beyond the Beliefs-Driven Actor ; Paul Lichterman ; 6. Pluralism and Secularism ; Courtney Bender ; 7. Religion on the Move: Mapping Global Cultural Production and Consumption ; Peggy Levitt ; Part II. Exemplary Cases: Empirical Examinations ; 8. Difficult Dialogues: The Technologies and Limits of Reconciliation ; Dawne Moon ; 9. Negotiating Religious Differences in Secular Organizations: The Case of Hospital Chapels ; Wendy Cadge ; 10. The Meaning and Challenges of Pluralism in Quebec: Debating "Reasonable Accommodation" ; Genevieve Zubrzycki ; 11. Revisiting Religious Power: The Korean Evangelical Church as a Disciplinary Institution Kelly H. Chong ; 12. Crossing Borders: Transnational Sanctuary, Social Justice, and the Church ; Jacqueline Hagan ; 13. Conclusion: Working the Edges ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2013
Zusatzinfo	4 b & w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780199938643 / 9780199938643
Zustand	Neuware