Re-conceptualising the religious habitus: reflexivity and embodied subjectivity in global modernity
The utility of the notion of the religious habitus rests on its capacity to illuminate how embodied dispositions emergent from routinised practices come to be socially and culturally significant. This has been called into question, however, by global changes that undermine the societal stability and...
| Published in: | Culture and religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2014]
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| In: |
Culture and religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Science of Religion
/ Habitus
/ Reflexivity
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Re-Islamization
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion BJ Islam KDG Free church |
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| Summary: | The utility of the notion of the religious habitus rests on its capacity to illuminate how embodied dispositions emergent from routinised practices come to be socially and culturally significant. This has been called into question, however, by global changes that undermine the societal stability and personal habits on which it is often understood to rely, stimulating instead reflexive engagements with change. After assessing conventional conceptions of the religious habitus vulnerable to such criticism, we utilise the writings of Latour in developing a new understanding of the term. Re-conceptualising the religious habitus as something reflexively re-made or 'instaured', through the cultivation of a subjectivity that locates human action, feeling and thought at the embodied intersection of worldly and other-worldly realities, we illustrate the value of this approach with reference to contemporary Pentecostalism and Islam. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-5610 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2014.942328 |