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Individualized Religion - Practitioners and their Communities (Paperback)
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Individualized Religion - Practitioners and their Communities (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
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Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized
religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Claire
Wanless demonstrates that counter to the claims of secularization
theorists, the combination of informal structures and practices can
provide a viable basis for socially significant religious activity
that can sustain itself. The subjects of this research claim a
variety of religious identities and practices, and are suspicious
of religious institutions, hierarchies, rules and dogmas. Yet they
participate actively in an overlapping and cross-linking informal
network of practice communities and other associations. Their
engagements propagate and sustain a core ideology that prioritizes
subjectivity, locates authority at the level of the individual, and
also predicates itself on ideals of sharing, mutuality and
community. Providing a new theory of religious association, this
book is a nuanced counterpoint to the secularization thesis in the
UK and points the way to new research on individual religion.
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