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Religious Identity and Social Change (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Hardcover

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Radford, David

 
9781138022829: Religious Identity and Social Change (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138022829 ISBN 13: 9781138022829
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transformation exploring significant questions concerning why people convert and what happens when they do so. A crisis of identity occurs when religious conversion takes place, especially from one major religious tradition (Islam) to another (Christianity); and where religious identity is intimately connected to ethnic and national identity. Radford argues for the importance of recognising the socially constructed nature of identity involving the dynamic interplay between human agency, culture and social networks. Kyrgyz Christians have been active agents in bringing religious and identity transformation building upon the contextual parameters in which they are situated.

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About the Author

David Radford is Senior Research Fellow at the Hawke Research Institute, where he is Lecturer in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of South Australia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138022829
ISBN 13 
9781138022829
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
228