Abby Day

Believing in Belonging

Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries, Abby Day explores how people 'believe in belonging', choosing religious identifications to complement other social and emotional experiences of 'belongings'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780199673551
• ISBN-10: 0199673551
• Artikelnr.: 37648708

Autorenporträt

Abby Day is Reader of Race, Faith, & Culture in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Methods and theoretical frameworks
1: Genealogies of belief in sociology and anthropology: transcending disciplinary boundaries
2: A research journey begins
2: Cosmologies of the mainstream
3: Believing in belonging: the cultural act of claiming identity
4: Youth and belief: belonging to connected selves
5: The sensuous social supernatural
6: Believing in fate: covering the cracks in belonging
7: Boundaries of belonging: doing unto ourselves
3: Relocating belief and belonging
8: Theorising belief: an holistic, organic, seven-dimensional model
9: Understanding Christian nominalism: rethinking Christian identity
10: Conclusion: relocating belief to the social