Against the flow: learning from new, emergent, and peripheral religious currents
This article was first presented as the Presidential Address of the Association for the Sociology of Religion at the August 2013 Annual Meeting in New York City. It applies the metaphor of a river to our understanding of religion, arguing that sociologists of religion have focused too much on the ma...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2014]
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| In: |
Sociology of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religious sociology
/ Religion
/ Mainstream
/ New religion
/ Marginality
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AZ New religious movements |
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Volltext (doi) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | This article was first presented as the Presidential Address of the Association for the Sociology of Religion at the August 2013 Annual Meeting in New York City. It applies the metaphor of a river to our understanding of religion, arguing that sociologists of religion have focused too much on the mainstream of religion, and have too often failed to account for the mainstream as a product of multiple dynamics and contestations—the tributaries, eddies, and crosscurrents that combine and interact to form the broad course of religious experience and institutions. Focusing on new, emergent, and peripheral religious currents enables a richer understanding of religion and opens more fruitful lines of inquiry. |
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| ISSN: | 1069-4404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/sru020 |