RT Article
T1 Catholicism Doesn't Always Mean What You Think It Means
JF Exchange
VO 48
IS 3
SP 214
OP 224
A1 Byrne, Julie 1968-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1683708385
AB Anthropologists of Catholicism should consider "floating" Catholicism as a signifier and resisting ingrained habits of essentializing and assuming its referent or content, exemplified by still-frequent quotations of sociologist Andrew Greeley's exceptionalist idea of the "sacramental imagination." I use examples from my work including everyday micropolitics, independent Catholics, and cultural Catholics, as well as the work of Maya Mayblin and Jon Bialecki, to suggest a catholic—in the small-c sense of all-encompassing—approach that has the potential to sustain the anthropology of Catholicism as a radical space for investigation and discovery. I revisit Greeley's "sacramental imagination" in the context of its quotation in a U.S. museum exhibit and connect its appeal to Roman Catholic empire-making.
K1 Empire
K1 Essentialism
K1 independent Catholics
K1 lapsed Catholics
K1 micropolitics
K1 virtual assemblage
DO 10.1163/1572543X-12341526