Interpreting Religion

Interpreting Religion

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Zusammenfassung

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, and emotion.

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Interpreting Religion by Erin F Johnston

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.
Erin F. Johnston is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. Vikash Singh is Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University.
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ISBN 13 9781529211627
ISBN 10 152921162X
Titel Interpreting Religion
Autor Erin F Johnston
Serie Interpretive Lenses In Sociology
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Bristol University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2023-11-14
Seitenanzahl 300
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