A sociologist learns to study religion
It took a very long time before I encountered the systematic study of religious processes and dynamics as a distinctive and expansive area of scholarship. Using an autobiographical account, I trace the development of my scholarship in the social scientific study of religion. I have now experienced a...
| Subtitles: | Symposium: The Sociology of Religion and the Study of Religion: Talking to each other, not about each other |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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| In: |
Critical research on religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 3, Pages: 267-273 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sociology
/ Interdisciplinary research
/ Religious sociology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Sociology
B Interdisciplinarity B sociology of religion |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | It took a very long time before I encountered the systematic study of religious processes and dynamics as a distinctive and expansive area of scholarship. Using an autobiographical account, I trace the development of my scholarship in the social scientific study of religion. I have now experienced a great diversity of approaches to the study of religion. Driven by insatiable curiosity and knowing that no one can capture religion comprehensively, I now am committed to stimulating imaginative, rigorous, and wide-ranging developments in religious scholarship. We require new, inventive, and even incompatible approaches to our study of religion if we ever hope to try adequately grasping the richness of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2050303216676525 |