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This explores how 'bringing the social back into the sociology of religion' makes possible a more adequate sociological understanding of such topics as power, emotions, the self, or ethnic relations in religious life. In particular, they do so by engaging with social theories and addressing issues of epistemology and scientific reflexivity. The chapters of this book cover a range of different religious traditions and regions of the world such as Sufism in Pakistan; the Kabbalah Centre in Europe, Brazil and Israel; African Christian missions in Europe; and Evangelical Christianity in France and Oceania. They are based upon original empirical research, making use of a range of methods -quantitative, ethnographic and documentary.

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Author:   Veronique Altglas ,  Matthew Wood
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9781642590753

ISBN 10:   1642590754
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   24 September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents Preface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: An Epistemology for the Sociology of Religion Protestant Churches and Same-Sex Marriage in France: ""Theological"" Criteria and Sociological Approaches Deconstructing Archer's (Un)Critical Realism Spirituality and Discipline: Not a Contradiction in Terms Congregational Studies, Worship and Region Behaviour Unmasking the Relations of Power within the Religious Field An Affective (U-)Turn in the Sociology of Religion? Religious Emotions and Native Narratives ""Reverse Mission"": A Critical Approach for a Problematic Subject ""We are Peace-Loving People."" Sufism, Orientalist Constructions of Islam and Radicalization Index"

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Vronique Altglas is lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast. Her book, From Yoga to Kabbalah: Religious Exoticism and the Logics of Bricolage, was chosen by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion as the best book in 2017. (2007).

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