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...

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Veröffentlicht in:Culture and religion
VerfasserInnen: Mellor, Philip A. (VerfasserIn) ; Shilling, Chris (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch/Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Taylor & Francis [2014]
In: Culture and religion
Jahr: 2014, Band: 15, Heft: 3, Seiten: 275-297
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Religionswissenschaft / Habitus / Reflexivität / Pfingstbewegung / Reislamisierung
RelBib Classification:AA Religionswissenschaft
AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
AE Religionspsychologie
BJ Islam
KDG Freikirche
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1475-5610
Enthält:Enthalten in: Culture and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2014.942328