The Critical Study of Non-Religion
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The Critical Study of Non-Religion

Discourse, Identification and Locality

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Critical Study of Non-Religion

Discourse, Identification and Locality

About this book

This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of extensive research in Edinburgh's Southside which blurs the boundary between 'religion' and 'non-religion'. In doing so, Cotter demonstrates that these are dynamic subject positions, and phenomena can occupy both at the same time, or neither, depending on who is doing the positioning, and what issues are at stake. This book details an approach that avoids constructing 'religion' as in some way unique, whilst also fully incorporating 'non-religious' subject positions into religious studies. It provides a rich engagement with a wide variety of theoretical material, rooted in empirical data, which will be essential reading for those interested in critical, sociological and anthropological study of the contemporary non-/religious landscape.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781350325791
eBook ISBN
9781350095267
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Atheism
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents 
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction Non-religion, non-religions, non-religious
  9. 1 The contemporary non-religious landscape in the UK and beyond
  10. 2 Critical religion, critical non-religion
  11. 3 Approaching non-religion: Edinburgh, the Southside and the religion-related field
  12. 4 Discursive entanglements: The religion-related field in Edinburgh’s Southside
  13. 5 Religion and non-religion as acts of identification
  14. 6 Local particularity
  15. 7 The power of indifference
  16. Epilogue: There is no data for non-religion
  17. Appendix 1: 2014 interviewee demographics
  18. Appendix 2: 2014 interview schedule
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index
  22. Imprint