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Interpreting Religion : Making Sense of Religious Lives, Paperback / softback Book

Interpreting Religion : Making Sense of Religious Lives Paperback / softback

Edited by Erin F. (Duke University) Johnston, Vikash (Montclair State University) Singh

Part of the Interpretive Lenses in Sociology series

Paperback / softback

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This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion.

Scholars from the US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical theoretical approaches.

Each chapter addresses foundational themes in the study of religion – from identity, discourse and power to ritual, emotion, and embodiment.

Authors examine dynamic intersections of race, gender, history, and the present within the religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, as well as among the non-religious. Cutting boldly across religious traditions and paradigms, the book investigates areas of harmony and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a richer understanding of the meanings of religion.

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