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Making Religion : Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion.

Wijsen, Frans.

Making Religion : Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (342 pages) - Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Series ; v.4 . - Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Series .

Intro -- Making Religion: Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1: Theoretical Reflections -- 1: Theory and Method in Critical Discursive Study of Religion: An Outline -- 2: No Danger! The Current Re-evaluation of Religion and Luhmann's Concept of Risk -- 3: The Matter of Meaning and the Meaning of Matter: Explorations for the Material and Discursive Study of Religion -- 4: Slippery and Saucy Discourse: Grappling with the Intersection of 'Alternate Epistemologies' and Discourse Analysis -- 5: Distinctions of Religion: The Search for Equivalents of 'Religion' and the Challenge of Theorizing a 'Global Discourse of Religion' -- 6: Discourse on 'Religion' in Organizing Social Practices: Theoretical and Practical Considerations -- 7: Towards a Praxeology of Religious Life: Modes of Observation -- PART 2: Contexts and Cases -- 8: Towards a Praxeology of Religious Life: Tools of Observation -- 9: Religion and Science in Transformation: On Discourse Communities, the Double-Bind of Discourse Research, and Theoretical Controversies -- 10: Indonesian Muslim or World Citizen? Religious Identity in the Dutch Integration Discourse -- 11: Exploring the Spread of Marketization Discourse in the Nordic Folk Church Context -- 12: Critical Reflections on the Religious-Secular Dichotomy in Japan -- 13: Whose Religion, What Freedom? Discursive Constructions of Religion in the Work of un Special Rapporteurs on the Freedom of Religion or Belief -- PART 3: Response -- 14: The Complex Discursivity of Religion -- Index.

Making Religion provides a unique overview of theoretical and practical aspects of the discursive study of religion. Leading scholars in the field discuss the opportunities and challenges of discourse analysis and its application in the study of religion.

9789004309180


Religion-Methodology.


Electronic books.

BL41 -- .M355 2016eb

200.72

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