More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion
In the last two decades, a growing number of religious studies scholars have broadened their interpretive gaze beyond the study of sacred texts to include the study of lived religion or everyday religious practice. While that ethnographic turn has been widely celebrated within the discipline, partic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2011
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 72, Issue: 4, Pages: 485-487 |
| Review of: | More than belief (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Seales, Chad E.)
More than belief (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Seales, Chad E.) |
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| Summary: | In the last two decades, a growing number of religious studies scholars have broadened their interpretive gaze beyond the study of sacred texts to include the study of lived religion or everyday religious practice. While that ethnographic turn has been widely celebrated within the discipline, particularly among those in the subfields of religion in the Americas, religion and transnational migration, and diaspora studies, few scholars have provided a sustained theoretical justification for its methodological exercise. In More than Belief, Vasquez does just that. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srr061 |