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Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion Veronique Altglas

Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion By Veronique Altglas

Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion by Veronique Altglas

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Based on original empirical research, the contributions collected here make possible a fuller sociological understanding of power, emotions, the self, and ethnic relations in religious life.

Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion Summary

Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion: Critical Approaches by Veronique Altglas

The contributors to Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion explore how 'bringing the social back into the sociology of religion' makes possible a more adequate sociological understanding of such topics as power, emotions, the self, or ethnic relations in religious life. In particular, they do so by engaging with social theories and addressing issues of epistemology and scientific reflexivity. The chapters of this book cover a range of different religious traditions and regions of the world such as Sufism in Pakistan; the Kabbalah Centre in Europe, Brazil and Israel; African Christian missions in Europe; and Evangelical Christianity in France and Oceania. They are based upon original empirical research, making use of a range of methods - quantitative, ethnographic and documentary.

Contributors are: Veronique Altglas, Peter Doak, Yannick Fer, Gwendoline Malogne-Fer, Christophe Monnot, Eric Morier-Genoud, Alix Philippon, Matthew Wood.

About Veronique Altglas

Veronique Altglas is lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. Her book, From Yoga to Kabbalah: Religious Exoticism and the Logics of Bricolage, was chosen by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion as the best book in 2017.


Matthew Wood (1970-2015) was lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. His work is particularly influential for the study of New Age, spirituality, and the epistemology of the sociology of religion. It includes Possession, Power and the New Age (2007).

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: An Epistemology for the Sociology of Religion

  1. Protestant Churches and Same-Sex Marriage in France: Theological Criteria and Sociological Approaches
  2. Deconstructing Archer's (Un)Critical Realism
  3. Spirituality and Discipline: Not a Contradiction in Terms
  4. Congregational Studies, Worship and Region Behaviour
  5. Unmasking the Relations of Power within the Religious Field
  6. An Affective (U-)Turn in the Sociology of Religion? Religious Emotions and Native Narratives
  7. Reverse Mission: A Critical Approach for a Problematic Subject
  8. We are Peace-Loving People. Sufism, Orientalist Constructions of Islam and Radicalization

Index

Additional information

NLS9781642590753
9781642590753
1642590754
Bringing Back the Social into the Sociology of Religion: Critical Approaches by Veronique Altglas
Veronique Altglas
Studies in Critical Research on Religion
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Paperback
Haymarket Books
2019-11-07
220
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