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Religion lies near the heart of the classical sociological
tradition, yet it no longer occupies the same place within the
contemporary sociological enterprise. This relative absence has
left sociology under-prepared for thinking about religion's
continuing importance in new issues, movements, and events in the
twenty-first century. This book seeks to address this lacunae by
offering a variety of theoretical perspectives on the study of
religion that bridge the gap between mainstream concerns of
sociologists and the sociology of religion. Following an assessment
of the current state of the field, the authors develop an emerging
critical perspective within the sociology of religion with
particular focus on the importance of historical background.
Re-assessing the themes of aesthetics, listening and different
degrees of spiritual self-discipline, the authors draw on
ethnographic studies of religious involvement in Norway and the UK.
They highlight the importance of power in the sociology of religion
with help from Pierre Bourdieu, Marx and Critical Discourse
Analysis. This book points to emerging currents in the field and
offers a productive and lively way forward, not just for
sociological theory of religion, but for the sociology of religion
more generally.
Religion lies near the heart of the classical sociological
tradition, yet it no longer occupies the same place within the
contemporary sociological enterprise. This relative absence has
left sociology under-prepared for thinking about religion's
continuing importance in new issues, movements, and events in the
twenty-first century. This book seeks to address this lacunae by
offering a variety of theoretical perspectives on the study of
religion that bridge the gap between mainstream concerns of
sociologists and the sociology of religion. Following an assessment
of the current state of the field, the authors develop an emerging
critical perspective within the sociology of religion with
particular focus on the importance of historical background.
Re-assessing the themes of aesthetics, listening and different
degrees of spiritual self-discipline, the authors draw on
ethnographic studies of religious involvement in Norway and the UK.
They highlight the importance of power in the sociology of religion
with help from Pierre Bourdieu, Marx and Critical Discourse
Analysis. This book points to emerging currents in the field and
offers a productive and lively way forward, not just for
sociological theory of religion, but for the sociology of religion
more generally.
Women are more religious than men. Despite being excluded from
leadership positions, in almost every culture and religious
tradition, women are more likely than men to pray, to worship, and
to claim that their faith is important to them. Women also dominate
the world of "New Age" spirituality and are far more superstitious
than men.
This book reviews the now-sizeable body of social research to
consider if the gender gap in religion is indeed universal. Marta
Trzebiatowska and Steve Bruce extensively critique competing
explanations of the differences found. They conclude that the
gender gap is not the result of biology but is rather the
consequence of important social differences over-lapping and
reinforcing each other. Responsibility for managing birth,
child-rearing and death, for example, and attitudes to the body,
illness and health, each play a part. In the West, the gender gap
is exaggerated because the social changes that undermined the
plausibility of religion bore most heavily on men first. Where the
lives of men and women become more similar, and where religious
indifference grows, the gender gap gradually disappears.
Written in an accessible style whilst drawing some robust
conclusions, the book's main purpose is to serve as a
state-of-the-art review for those interested in one of the largest
differences between male and female behavior.
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