Interpreting Religion
eBook - ePub

Interpreting Religion

Making Sense of Religious Lives

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Interpreting Religion

Making Sense of Religious Lives

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Interpreting Religion by Erin Johnston,Vikash Singh,Erin F. Johnston in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sozialwissenschaften & Kultur- & Sozialanthropologie. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. series page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Series Editors’ Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology – On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
  10. Introduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion
  11. 1 Making Sense of Queer Christian Lives
  12. 2 The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Religion, Spirituality, and Ritual among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
  13. 3 Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion
  14. 4 Mind the Gap: What Ethnographic Silences Can Teach Us
  15. 5 The Public Sphere and Presentations of the Collective Self: Being Shia in Modern India
  16. 6 The Power of Meaning: Toward a Critical Discursive Sociology of Religion
  17. 7 The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multicultural Reality
  18. 8 Totalitarianism as Religion
  19. 9 The Heritage Spectrum: A More Inclusive Typology for the Age of Global Buddhism
  20. 10 Interpreting Nonreligion
  21. Afterword: Approaching Religions – Some Reflections on Meaning, Identity, and Power
  22. Index