Lois Lee

Recognizing the Non-religious (eBook, PDF)

Reimagining the Secular

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are secular has come under scrutiny. At the same time, many countries, especially in Europe, have increasingly large nonaffiliate, 'subjectively secular' populations, whilst nonreligious cultural movements like the New Atheism and the Sunday Assembly have come to prominence. Making sense of secularity, irreligion, and the relationship between them has therefore emerged as a crucial task for those seeking to understand contemporary societies and the nature of modern life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in southeast England, Recognizing the Non-religious develops a new vocabulary, theory and methodology for thinking about the secular. It distinguishes between separate and incommensurable aspects of so-called secularity as insubstantial-involving merely the absence of religion-and substantial-involving beliefs, ritual practice, and identities that are alternative to religious ones. Recognizing the cultural forms that present themselves as non-religious therefore opens up new, more egalitarian and more theoretically coherent ways of thinking about people who are 'not religious'. It is also argued that recognizing the nonreligious allows us to reimagine the secular itself in new and productive ways. This book is part of a fast-growing area of research that builds upon and contributes to theoretical debates concerning secularization, 'desecularization', religious change, postsecularity and postcolonial approaches to religion and secularism. As well as presenting new research, this book gathers insights from the wider studies of nonreligion, atheism, and secularism in order to consolidate a theoretical framework, conceptual foundation and agenda for future research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191056659
• Artikelnr.: 43418960

Autorenporträt

Lois Lee is a Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kent. She is a sociologist whose work focuses on the empirical study of nonreligion and atheism and, more widely, on the theory and study of culturally diverse and differentiated societies. Lois is founding director of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network (NSRN) and co-edits the journal Secularism and Nonreligion.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Contradistinctions In Terms: Vocabulary for the Study of
Secularity and Nonreligion
* 2: The Insubstantial and the Substantial Secular: Theories of
Secularity and Nonreligion
* 3: The Unwaved Flag: Material and Banal Forms of Nonreligion
* 4: Out of the Shadows: Nonreligious and Secularist Bodies in Relief
* 5: Friends And 'Anti-Fennelists': Nonreligious Relationships and
Solidarities
* 6: Disaffiliation and Misaffiliation: Identifying Nonreligion in
Public Life
* 7: Beyond Unbelief: Nonreligion and Existential Culture
* Conclusion
* Appendices