Gestures: the study of religion as practice

"This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in...

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Contributors: Leezenberg, M. M. 1964- (Editor) ; Korte, Anne-Marie 1957- (Editor) ; Bruinessen, Martin van 1946- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Fordham University Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:The future of the religious past
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religious life / Gesture / Ritual
Further subjects:B Religious Life
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Summary:"This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity, and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts, but as lived experience. Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0823299627