Interpreting Religion: Making Sense of Religious Lives

doi:10.46692/9781529211634

Interpreting Religion

Making Sense of Religious Lives

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Edited by Erin Johnston, Stanford University, California, Vikash Singh

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: October 2022
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781529211634
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529211634

Subjects:: Physical Anthropology, Anthropology

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This collection brings together a diverse range of interpretivist perspectives to find fresh takes on the meanings of religion. Cutting across paradigms and traditions, experts from the UK, US, and India apply different approaches to engagement with beliefs and themes, including identity, ritual, and emotion.

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Making Sense of Religious Lives

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of Figures and Tables
pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors
pp x-xii

Series Editors’ Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology – On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
pp xiii-xviii

Introduction: Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Religion
pp 1-18

1 - Making Sense of Queer Christian Lives
pp 19-42

2 - The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Religion, Spirituality, and Ritual among Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
pp 43-65

3 - Doing It: Ethnography, Embodiment, and the Interpretation of Religion
pp 66-85

4 - Mind the Gap: What Ethnographic Silences Can Teach Us
pp 86-105

5 - The Public Sphere and Presentations of the Collective Self: Being Shia in Modern India
pp 106-130

6 - The Power of Meaning: Toward a Critical Discursive Sociology of Religion
pp 131-150

7 - The Religion of White Male Ethnonationalism in a Multicultural Reality
pp 151-179

8 - Totalitarianism as Religion
pp 180-198

9 - The Heritage Spectrum: A More Inclusive Typology for the Age of Global Buddhism
pp 199-227

10 - Interpreting Nonreligion
pp 228-249

Afterword: Approaching Religions – Some Reflections on Meaning, Identity, and Power
pp 250-270

Index
pp 271-281

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