Individualized religion: practitioners and their communities
1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing religion in the 21st century -- 3. The Upper Calder Valley -- 4. A Diversity of Practice -- 5. The Character of Individualized Religion -- 6. Individuals in Community -- 7. Conclusion
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [England]
Bloomsbury Academic
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
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| Further subjects: | B
West Yorkshire (England)
Religious life and customs 21st century
B Freedom Of Religion (England) (Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire)) B Electronic books B Group Identity Religious aspects (England) (Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire)) B Individualism Religious aspects (England) 21st century B Communities Religious life and customs (England) 21st century |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781350234123 |
| Summary: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing religion in the 21st century -- 3. The Upper Calder Valley -- 4. A Diversity of Practice -- 5. The Character of Individualized Religion -- 6. Individuals in Community -- 7. Conclusion "Drawing on ethnographic research, this book explores individualized religion in and around Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Claire Wanless demonstrates that counter to the claims of secularization theorists, the combination of informal structures and practices can provide a viable basis for socially significant religious activity that can sustain itself. The subjects of this research claim a variety of religious identities and practices, and are suspicious of religious institutions, hierarchies, rules and dogmas. Yet they participate actively in an overlapping and cross-linking informal network of practice communities and other associations. Their engagements propagate and sustain a core ideology that prioritizes subjectivity, locates authority at the level of the individual, and also predicates itself on ideals of sharing, mutuality and community. Providing a new theory of religious association, this book is a counterpoint to the secularization thesis in the UK and points the way to new research on individual religion."-- |
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| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1350182532 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781350182530 |