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Uncovers what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian one Sociology has long used Western Christianity as a model for all religious life. As a result, the field has tended to highlight aspects of religion that Christians find important, such as religious beliefs and formal organizations, while paying less attention to other elements. Rather than simply criticizing such limitations, James V. Spickard imagines what the sociology of religion would look like had it arisen in three non-Western societies. What aspects of religion would scholars see more clearly if they had been raised in Confucian China? What could they learn about religion from Ibn Khaldun, the famed 14th century Arab scholar? What would they better understand, had they been born Navajo, whose traditional religion certainly does not revolve around beliefs and organizations? Through these thought experiments, Spickard shows how non-Western ideas understand some aspects of religions—even of Western religions—better than does standard sociology. The volume shows how non-Western frameworks can shed new light on several different dimensions of religious life, including the question of who maintains religious communities, the relationships between religion and ethnicity as sources of social ties, and the role of embodied experience in religious rituals. These approaches reveal central aspects of contemporary religions that the dominant way of doing sociology fails to notice. Each approach also provides investigators with new theoretical resources to guide them deeper into their subjects. The volume makes a compelling case for adopting a global perspective in the social sciences.
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Research Basics: Design to Data Analysis in Six Steps offers a fresh and creative approach to the research process based on author James V. Spickard's decades of teaching experience. Using an intuitive six--step model, readers learn how to craft a research question and then identify a logical process for answering it. Conversational writing and multi--disciplinary examples illuminate the model's simplicity and power, effectively connecting the "hows" and "whys" behind social science research. Students using this book will learn how to turn their research questions into results.
Social sciences --- Research --- Research --- Methodology. --- Methodology.
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Uncovers what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian one Sociology has long used Western Christianity as a model for all religious life. As a result, the field has tended to highlight aspects of religion that Christians find important, such as religious beliefs and formal organizations, while paying less attention to other elements. Rather than simply criticizing such limitations, James V. Spickard imagines what the sociology of religion would look like had it arisen in three non-Western societies. What aspects of religion would scholars see more clearly if they had been raised in Confucian China? What could they learn about religion from Ibn Khaldun, the famed 14th century Arab scholar? What would they better understand, had they been born Navajo, whose traditional religion certainly does not revolve around beliefs and organizations? Through these thought experiments, Spickard shows how non-Western ideas understand some aspects of religions—even of Western religions—better than does standard sociology. The volume shows how non-Western frameworks can shed new light on several different dimensions of religious life, including the question of who maintains religious communities, the relationships between religion and ethnicity as sources of social ties, and the role of embodied experience in religious rituals. These approaches reveal central aspects of contemporary religions that the dominant way of doing sociology fails to notice. Each approach also provides investigators with new theoretical resources to guide them deeper into their subjects. The volume makes a compelling case for adopting a global perspective in the social sciences.
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The essays in this volume illustrates the variety and power of predominantly pentecostal-charismatic movements between Western and African religious actors and groups that has developed across the past twenty years. In so doing, it also highlights the dramatic change in global ""migration"" patterns as a result of relatively inexpensive air travel.
Black people --- African diaspora. --- Globalization --- Religion. --- Religious aspects. --- Blacks
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Religion --- Ethnology --- #SBIB:316.331H111 --- #SBIB:39A2 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Methodology --- Religious aspects --- Onderzoek in en ontwikkeling van de godsdienstsociologie --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Methodology. --- Religious aspects.
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This volume explores the intersections of religion, power, and resistance in a fast-changing world. The authors herein seek to disrupt the sociology of religion’s dominant paradigms, especially its overemphasis in Europe and the United States, as well as its preference for official religions as opposed to diverse worldviews in all of their manifestations from around the world: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. The papers in this volume explore ways of decentering the Global North and of decolonizing the sociology of religion’s core concepts. They explore strategies used by newer and popular forms of religion to challenge existing power structures. Moreover, they examine the intersectionalities that privilege some people’s religious lives and disprivilege others. They show how religion, spirituality, and non-religion are much more complex than the dominant paradigms have led us to believe. This volume seeks to generate robust discussion and critical reflection on new ideas for a divided world, thus contributing to the advancement of the discipline of religious sociology.
Humanities --- Social interaction --- sociology of religion --- post-colonial --- reflexivity --- epistemology --- race --- religion --- violence --- South Africa --- decoloniality --- Chinese religion --- secularization --- Xunzi --- Durkheim --- identity --- African Pentecostalism --- integration --- transnationalism --- diaspora --- religious diversity --- religions --- law --- media --- education --- religious strength --- sex --- gender --- Canada --- religion and migration --- intersectionality --- popular religions --- multiple modernities --- lived religion --- power --- resistance --- social theory --- holistic spirituality --- Ghana’s New Churches --- ideology --- dominant ideology --- alternative ideology --- political power --- social constructionism --- Islamism --- Islam --- Shi’ism --- spiritualism --- rituals --- Iran --- non-religion --- atheism --- persecution --- policy --- diversity --- young people --- spirituality --- complexity --- hybridity --- n/a --- Ghana's New Churches --- Shi'ism
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This volume explores the intersections of religion, power, and resistance in a fast-changing world. The authors herein seek to disrupt the sociology of religion’s dominant paradigms, especially its overemphasis in Europe and the United States, as well as its preference for official religions as opposed to diverse worldviews in all of their manifestations from around the world: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. The papers in this volume explore ways of decentering the Global North and of decolonizing the sociology of religion’s core concepts. They explore strategies used by newer and popular forms of religion to challenge existing power structures. Moreover, they examine the intersectionalities that privilege some people’s religious lives and disprivilege others. They show how religion, spirituality, and non-religion are much more complex than the dominant paradigms have led us to believe. This volume seeks to generate robust discussion and critical reflection on new ideas for a divided world, thus contributing to the advancement of the discipline of religious sociology.
sociology of religion --- post-colonial --- reflexivity --- epistemology --- race --- religion --- violence --- South Africa --- decoloniality --- Chinese religion --- secularization --- Xunzi --- Durkheim --- identity --- African Pentecostalism --- integration --- transnationalism --- diaspora --- religious diversity --- religions --- law --- media --- education --- religious strength --- sex --- gender --- Canada --- religion and migration --- intersectionality --- popular religions --- multiple modernities --- lived religion --- power --- resistance --- social theory --- holistic spirituality --- Ghana’s New Churches --- ideology --- dominant ideology --- alternative ideology --- political power --- social constructionism --- Islamism --- Islam --- Shi’ism --- spiritualism --- rituals --- Iran --- non-religion --- atheism --- persecution --- policy --- diversity --- young people --- spirituality --- complexity --- hybridity --- n/a --- Ghana's New Churches --- Shi'ism
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This volume explores the intersections of religion, power, and resistance in a fast-changing world. The authors herein seek to disrupt the sociology of religion’s dominant paradigms, especially its overemphasis in Europe and the United States, as well as its preference for official religions as opposed to diverse worldviews in all of their manifestations from around the world: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. The papers in this volume explore ways of decentering the Global North and of decolonizing the sociology of religion’s core concepts. They explore strategies used by newer and popular forms of religion to challenge existing power structures. Moreover, they examine the intersectionalities that privilege some people’s religious lives and disprivilege others. They show how religion, spirituality, and non-religion are much more complex than the dominant paradigms have led us to believe. This volume seeks to generate robust discussion and critical reflection on new ideas for a divided world, thus contributing to the advancement of the discipline of religious sociology.
Humanities --- Social interaction --- sociology of religion --- post-colonial --- reflexivity --- epistemology --- race --- religion --- violence --- South Africa --- decoloniality --- Chinese religion --- secularization --- Xunzi --- Durkheim --- identity --- African Pentecostalism --- integration --- transnationalism --- diaspora --- religious diversity --- religions --- law --- media --- education --- religious strength --- sex --- gender --- Canada --- religion and migration --- intersectionality --- popular religions --- multiple modernities --- lived religion --- power --- resistance --- social theory --- holistic spirituality --- Ghana's New Churches --- ideology --- dominant ideology --- alternative ideology --- political power --- social constructionism --- Islamism --- Islam --- Shi'ism --- spiritualism --- rituals --- Iran --- non-religion --- atheism --- persecution --- policy --- diversity --- young people --- spirituality --- complexity --- hybridity --- sociology of religion --- post-colonial --- reflexivity --- epistemology --- race --- religion --- violence --- South Africa --- decoloniality --- Chinese religion --- secularization --- Xunzi --- Durkheim --- identity --- African Pentecostalism --- integration --- transnationalism --- diaspora --- religious diversity --- religions --- law --- media --- education --- religious strength --- sex --- gender --- Canada --- religion and migration --- intersectionality --- popular religions --- multiple modernities --- lived religion --- power --- resistance --- social theory --- holistic spirituality --- Ghana's New Churches --- ideology --- dominant ideology --- alternative ideology --- political power --- social constructionism --- Islamism --- Islam --- Shi'ism --- spiritualism --- rituals --- Iran --- non-religion --- atheism --- persecution --- policy --- diversity --- young people --- spirituality --- complexity --- hybridity
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Written by academics from different disciplines and backgrounds, this book offers an international practical guide to doing diversity in the social sciences.
Education, Higher --- Educational equalization. --- Multicultural education. --- Social aspects. --- Intercultural education --- Education --- Culturally relevant pedagogy --- Culturally sustaining pedagogy --- Educational equality --- Educational equity --- Educational inequality --- Equal education --- Equal educational opportunity --- Equality of education --- Equalization, Educational --- Equity, Educational --- Inequality, Educational --- Opportunity, Equal educational --- Affirmative action programs in education --- Aims and objectives --- Elites (Social sciences)
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