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Listening, Religion, and Democracy in Contemporary Boston - God's Ears (Hardcover)
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Listening, Religion, and Democracy in Contemporary Boston - God's Ears (Hardcover)
Series: Ethnographies of Religion
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This book is a study of religious practices of listening in the
Boston area. Through ethnographic study of a variety of religious
communities, with an extensive focus on Quaker listening, it argues
that religious practice shapes our habits of listening by creating
a plurality of regimes of listening across Boston's landscape.
These practices, moreover, cultivate specific dispositions, as well
as distinct patterns of religious and democratic virtues. Through
these dispositions and virtues, religious listening facilitates a
diverse range of forms of democratic engagement, and varied
contributions to the pursuit of social justice. William Young
provides an innovative interpretation of these religious practices.
It argues that insofar as religious listening helps practitioners
to extend and amplify their listening, and makes them more
responsive to their communities, it creates a social mode of
embodied receptivity and agency. Through both their listening and
their actions, these groups express their conceptions of divinity,
embodying divine attributes and activity within the sociopolitical
realm-serving as God's ears within the world. It is by interpreting
their practices as creating modes of social discipline, reception,
and agency that the book explicates the full significance of
religious listening, in its adaptations and extensions of our aural
capacities, and their implications for sociopolitical life.
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