Interpreting Religion by Erin Johnston, Vikash Singh - 9781529211627

Bristol University Press

Interpreting ReligionMaking Sense of Religious Lives\nAuthor(s): Erin Johnston, Vikash Singh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bristol University Press\nISBN-13: 9781529211627, 978-1529211627\nSynopsis\nThis edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production, experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion. \n\nScholars 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.\n\nCutting boldly across religious traditions and paradigms, the book .