Religion, Power, and Resistance : New Ideas for a Divided World
Halafoff, Anna
Religion, Power, and Resistance : New Ideas for a Divided World - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (196 p.)
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This volume explores the intersections of religion, power, and resistance in a fast-changing world. The authors herein seek to disrupt the sociology of religion's dominant paradigms, especially its overemphasis in Europe and the United States, as well as its preference for official religions as opposed to diverse worldviews in all of their manifestations from around the world: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. The papers in this volume explore ways of decentering the Global North and of decolonizing the sociology of religion's core concepts. They explore strategies used by newer and popular forms of religion to challenge existing power structures. Moreover, they examine the intersectionalities that privilege some people's religious lives and disprivilege others. They show how religion, spirituality, and non-religion are much more complex than the dominant paradigms have led us to believe. This volume seeks to generate robust discussion and critical reflection on new ideas for a divided world, thus contributing to the advancement of the discipline of religious sociology.
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books978-3-03936-865-5 9783039368648 9783039368655
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Humanities
Social interaction
sociology of religion post-colonial reflexivity epistemology race religion violence South Africa decoloniality Chinese religion secularization Xunzi Durkheim identity African Pentecostalism integration transnationalism diaspora religious diversity religions law media education religious strength sex gender Canada religion and migration intersectionality popular religions multiple modernities lived religion power resistance social theory holistic spirituality Ghana's New Churches ideology dominant ideology alternative ideology political power social constructionism Islamism Islam Shi'ism spiritualism rituals Iran non-religion atheism persecution policy diversity young people spirituality complexity hybridity n/a
Religion, Power, and Resistance : New Ideas for a Divided World - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (196 p.)
Open Access
This volume explores the intersections of religion, power, and resistance in a fast-changing world. The authors herein seek to disrupt the sociology of religion's dominant paradigms, especially its overemphasis in Europe and the United States, as well as its preference for official religions as opposed to diverse worldviews in all of their manifestations from around the world: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. The papers in this volume explore ways of decentering the Global North and of decolonizing the sociology of religion's core concepts. They explore strategies used by newer and popular forms of religion to challenge existing power structures. Moreover, they examine the intersectionalities that privilege some people's religious lives and disprivilege others. They show how religion, spirituality, and non-religion are much more complex than the dominant paradigms have led us to believe. This volume seeks to generate robust discussion and critical reflection on new ideas for a divided world, thus contributing to the advancement of the discipline of religious sociology.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03936-865-5 9783039368648 9783039368655
10.3390/books978-3-03936-865-5 doi
Humanities
Social interaction
sociology of religion post-colonial reflexivity epistemology race religion violence South Africa decoloniality Chinese religion secularization Xunzi Durkheim identity African Pentecostalism integration transnationalism diaspora religious diversity religions law media education religious strength sex gender Canada religion and migration intersectionality popular religions multiple modernities lived religion power resistance social theory holistic spirituality Ghana's New Churches ideology dominant ideology alternative ideology political power social constructionism Islamism Islam Shi'ism spiritualism rituals Iran non-religion atheism persecution policy diversity young people spirituality complexity hybridity n/a