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Everyday Religion - Observing Modern Religious Lives (Paperback)
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Everyday Religion - Observing Modern Religious Lives (Paperback)
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Social scientists sometimes seem not to know what to do with
religion. In the first century of sociology's history as a
discipline, the reigning concern was explaining the emergence of
the modern world, and that brought with it an expectation that
religion would simply fade from the scene as societies became
diverse, complex, and enlightened. As the century approached its
end, however, a variety of global phenomena remained dramatically
unexplained by these theories. Among the leading contenders for
explanatory power to emerge at this time were rational choice
theories of religious behavior. Researchers who have spent time in
the field observing religious groups and interviewing
practitioners, however, have questioned the sufficiency of these
market models. Studies abound that describe thriving religious
phenomena that fit neither the old secularization paradigm nor the
equations predicting vitality only among organizational
entrepreneurs with strict orthodoxies. In this collection of
previously unpublished essays, scholars who have been immersed in
field research in a wide variety of settings draw on those
observations from the field to begin to develop more helpful ways
to study religion in modern lives. The authors examine how religion
functions on the ground in a pluralistic society, how it is
experienced by individuals, and how it is expressed in social
institutions. Taken as a whole, these essays point to a new
approach to the study of religion, one that emphasizes individual
experience and social context over strict categorization and data
collection.
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