The critical study of non-religion: discourse, identification and locality
"This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of exten...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [England]
Bloomsbury Academic
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Irreligion
B Electronic books B Irreligion and sociology B Agnosticism & atheism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Cotter, Christopher R: The Critical Study of Non-Religion : Discourse, Identification and Locality. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2020 |
| Summary: | "This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of extensive research in Edinburgh's Southside which blurs the boundary between 'religion' and 'non-religion'. In doing so, Cotter demonstrates that these are dynamic subject positions, and phenomena can occupy both at the same time, or neither, depending on who is doing the positioning, and what issues are at stake. This book details an approach that avoids constructing 'religion' as in some way unique, whilst also fully incorporating 'non-religious' subject positions into religious studies. It provides a rich engagement with a wide variety of theoretical material, rooted in empirical data, which will be essential reading for those interested in critical, sociological and anthropological study of the contemporary non-/religious landscape."-- Appendix 2: 2014 interview schedule -- Notes -- References -- Index Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The contemporary non-religious landscape in the UK and beyond -- 2 Critical religion, critical non-religion -- 3 Approaching non-religion: Edinburgh, the Southside and the religion-related field -- 4 Discursive entanglements: The religion-related field in Edinburgh's Southside -- 5 Religion and non-religion as acts of identification -- 6 Local particularity -- 7 The power of indifference -- Epilogue: There is no data for non-religion -- Appendix 1: 2014 interviewee demographics |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1350095257 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781350095274 |