Bringing back the social into the sociology of religion : critical approaches / edited by Véronique Altglas, Matthew Wood.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Altglas, Véronique (Editor), Wood, Matthew, 1970- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Series:Studies in critical social sciences. Studies in critical research on religion ; v. 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an epistemology for the sociology of religion
  • Protestant churches and same-sex marriage in France: "theological" criteria and sociological approaches
  • Deconstructing Archer's (un)critical realism
  • Spirituality and discipline: not a contradiction in terms
  • Congregational studies, worship and region behaviour
  • Unmasking the relations of power within the religious field
  • An affective (u- )turn in the sociology of religion? Religious emotions and native narratives
  • "Reverse mission": a critical approach for a problematic subject
  • "We are peace-loving people." Sufism, Orientalist constructions of Islam and radicalization.