Historicizing the Religious Field: Adapting Theories of the Religious Field for the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Europe
As historians of religion are currently diagnosing a need to find new shared frameworks and new narratives enabling interdisciplinary and trans-epochal exchange, the article suggests a closer historical engagement with theories of the "religious field", originally formulated by Pierre Bour...
| Published in: | Church history and religious culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Church history and religious culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bourdieu, Pierre 1930-2002
/ Religion
/ Field theory (Sociology)
/ Europe
/ Christianity
/ History 1350-1600
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBA Western Europe |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Plurality
B Pierre Bourdieu B Religious Studies B History of religion B theory of history B sociology of religion B Religious Field |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | As historians of religion are currently diagnosing a need to find new shared frameworks and new narratives enabling interdisciplinary and trans-epochal exchange, the article suggests a closer historical engagement with theories of the "religious field", originally formulated by Pierre Bourdieu on the basis of Max Weber's work, as this theory has the potential to serve as a meta-language for interdisciplinary communication. The article sets out the most important elements of the theory of the religious field, and evaluates them critically by way of a historicization of important concepts, drawing on recent discussions in sociology and Religious Studies. After discussing the concept of the religious field itself, the article discusses several internal dynamics of the field (as suggested by Bourdieu and by more recent research) as well as several typical dynamics between fields. It concludes with suggestions for historical adaptations, including an updated approach to religious plurality and to the different types of religious actors envisaged by Weber and Bourdieu. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09903003 |