Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 508 g
Reihe: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 508 g
Reihe: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
ISBN: 978-90-04-51169-9
Verlag: Brill
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte
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Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Taking “Religion“ Seriously
1 How This Approach Differs from Other Studies of “Religion”
2 A Look at the Content
2 The Discursive Approach: Theory, Method and the Study of Religion
1 Outline for a Discursive Study of Religion
2 Differences within Discursive Approaches
3 Struggling for a Discursive Study of Religion: A Debate on Disciplinary Identity
4 Structural Challenges in the Study of Religion
5 Conclusion
3 Religion as a Discursive Technique: The Politics of Classifying Wicca
1 The Finnish Context
2 What Happened to the Wiccans?
3 Registration as a Social Interest
4 The Benefits of Being a Religious Community
5 Governing by Classification
6 Scholars as Participants in Classificatory Practice
7 Conclusion
4 The Art of Becoming a Religion: Law, Media and Experts
1 Registering Religious Communities in Finland
2 Key Interests behind the Process
3 Negotiating “Religion”: The First Round
4 Negotiating “Religion”: The Second Round
5 Involving Researchers and the Media
6 Conclusion
5 The Category of “Religion“ in Public Classification: Charity Registration of the Druid Network (with Suzanne Owen)
1 “Religion” and Charity Law
2 Negotiating “Religion” in the Druid Network’s Application
3 Motives, Responses, Implications
4 Conclusion: “Religion” in Regulating and Enabling
6 Jedi Knights and the Category of Invented Religion
1 Evaluating the Theoretical Utility of “Invented Religion”
2 Alternative Framework: Studying Discourse on Religion
3 Man with a Hood: The Curious Case of Chris Jarvis
4 Inclusion, Exclusion, Reflexivity
5 Conclusion
7 Rethinking the Classroom: Teaching the World Religions
1 Teaching and Un-teaching “Religions in the World”
2 Problematising and Historicising the Discourse on World Religions
3 Partial Steps Forward: Ethnography and “Making the Tent Bigger”
4 Exploration of the Category of “Religion” in the Classroom
5 Resources for the Classroom
6 Teaching Again: Living with Compromises
7 Conclusion
8 Critics and Allies in Studying “Religion“
1 Defining Religion Anew? No Thanks!
2 Material/ist and Affective Turns
3 Different Ways to Be Critical
4 Acknowledging That the Work Is Not Done
References
Index