Communicating Religion

Narratives, Stories, Performances, and Meaning
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-17362-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 167 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This volume brings together scholars from across disciplines to explore the intricate intersections of narrative, communication, and religion. Ranging from theoretical reflections to case-based analyses, the chapters examine how religions intersect and interact with, as well as function as, individual, and grand narratives. How are these (meta)narratives communicated, and how do individuals interpret and transmit them within their own lived experience? Rather than advocating a single interpretive framework, presents a dialogue among competing theories and methods. Contributors probe the use, understanding, and study of narrative within religious contexts, asking foundational questions about how meaning is produced, conveyed, and reimagined. By juxtaposing diverse disciplinary perspectives, the volume clarifies the epistemological foundations of narrative inquiry in religious studies and opens new pathways for coherent, interdisciplinary understanding. A vital contribution to the growing field of narrative theory and religion, this book offers a rich conceptual and methodological map for scholars seeking to understand how stories shape faith — and how faith, in turn, shapes stories.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pace, Enzo

Aasmundsen, Hans Geir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction (Geir Aasmundsen and Pace).- Chapter 2. Communication Pentecostal Narrative(s) (Pace and Geir Aasmundsen).- Chapter 3. From the Subject of Belief to the Act of Believing (Torre and Zuñiga).- Chapter 4. Interfaith Marriages in Europe: Two Methodological Controversies in Researching Family and Relationships through the Ethno-sociological Approach (Cerchiaro).- Chapter 5. Narratives of Holistic and Creation Care (Gjerstad, Oloko and Geir Aasmundsen).- Chapter 6. Understanding victims’ silence through their narratives. A study in sexual abuses and abuses of power in Catholic ecclesiastical context in Argentina and Peru - (Lecaros and Suarez).- Chapter 7. Digital Immortality: The Secularization of Grand Religious Narrative (Pace).- Chapter 8. Dialogical Identity and Narrative (Cipriani).- Chapter 9. Care Narratives and Spirituality in Integrative Oncology (Giarelli and Greco).- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Writing and Communicating Sociology in a Narrative Way (Allievi).

Über Autor(innen)

Enzo Pace  Professor of sociology and sociology of religion, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padua (I).  Directeur d’études invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Sorbone-Paris (1996, 2002, 2018). He has been President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR). He received the 2012 Hoffmann Award for Intercultural Competence from the University of Vechta-Bremen (Germany).

Member of the scientific boards: Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions; International Journal of Latin-American Religions; Religions; Religioni & Società; Religion, State and Society. Co-editor of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (Leiden, Brill).

Hans Geir Aasmundsen  PhD in Religious Studies at the Södertörn University, Stockholm, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Faculty of Sciences of Education and Humanities since 2020, after having been at UiB Global, at the University of Bergen. His main research interest is the study of religion, society, and politics, focusing on Latin America and, more recently, on the transnational Lausanne Movement and the politicization of global Pentecostalism.