Religion Beyond Secularisation Theories: Contradictional Findings of the Study of Religion in a (Post-)Modern World
How to analyse the changing significance of religion in (post-) modern societies is one of the most prominent subjects of the Study of Religion in the last decades. The article points out that this theoretical discussion on secularisation and pluralisation is coined by antipodes and mutually exclusi...
| Published in: | Spaces of Dissension |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
2019
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| In: |
Spaces of Dissension
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| Further subjects: | B
Salafism
B Pluralisation B Secularisation B Interreligious Dialogue B Non-religion |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | How to analyse the changing significance of religion in (post-) modern societies is one of the most prominent subjects of the Study of Religion in the last decades. The article points out that this theoretical discussion on secularisation and pluralisation is coined by antipodes and mutually exclusive diagnoses—each of which declares a general trend and marks divergent developments as deviant. Based on empirical findings from projects about Interreligious Dialogue Groups in Germany, Anti-Atheism in the United States, and Salafism in Europe, the authors show that these contradictions are not just the result of the focus on different regions or religions, but stem from contradicting developments within religion itself. We argue that these developments, frictions and counter-reactions of religious behaviour are indeed inherent to the field of religion. Drawing on Cultural Studies approaches which consider frictions as key to understanding the hybridity of postmodern subjects and fields helps to understand and theorise contemporary trends of religion and religiosity. At the same time, the empirical results from the presented research show that hybrid and subversive identities are not to be equated with a liberation from power structures, but create new power structures. |
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| ISBN: | 3658259906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Spaces of Dissension
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-25990-7_7 |