Religion on the Edge - De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2012
Editors:	Courtney Bender (Associate Professor of Religion) • Wendy Cadge (Associate Professor of Sociology) • Peggy Levitt (Professor of Sociology) • David Smilde (Associate Professor of Sociology)
Dimensions:	234 x 166 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-993864-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Religious groups Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-993864-4
Barcode:	9780199938643

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