Meredith B McGuire

Lived Religion (eBook, ePUB)

Faith and Practice in Everyday Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The divergence of religious practices from one individual to another has long baffled scholars of contemporary religion, whose research often assumes that individuals commit, or refuse to commit, to an entire institutionally defined package of beliefs and practices. Social surveys typically ask respondents to self-identify by denominational or other broad religious categories. Sociologists attempt to measure religiosity according to how well individuals conform to the official religious standards, such as frequency of church attendance, scripture-reading, or prayer. In this book, Meredith McGuire points the way forward to a new way of understanding and studying religious behavior. Rather than try to fit people into prearranged packages, she argues, scholars must begin to study religion as it is actually lived and experienced in people's everyday lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190451318
• Artikelnr.: 42645569

Autorenporträt

Meredith McGuire is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She has written and edited numerous books, most recently Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reframing the Ethnography of Religion, co-edited with Jim Spickard and Shawn Landres.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Everyday Religion as Lived
2: Contested Meanings and Definitional Boundaries: Historicizing the Sociology of Religion
3: Popular Religious Expressions Today: U.S. Latinos and Latinas
4: Popular Religions in Practice Today: Southern White Evangelicals
5: Spirituality and Materiality: Why Bodies Matter
6: Embodied Practices for Healing and Wholeness
7: Gendered Spiritualities
8: Rethinking Religious Identity, Commitment, and Hybridity