Critical Study of Non-Religion, The: Discourse, Identification and Locality (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies) - Softcover

Cotter, Christopher R.

 
9781350325791: Critical Study of Non-Religion, The: Discourse, Identification and Locality (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1350325791 ISBN 13: 9781350325791
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of ‘religion’ and empirical studies of ‘religion in the real world’. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of extensive research in Edinburgh’s Southside which blurs the boundary between ‘religion’ and ‘non-religion’. In doing so, Cotter demonstrates that these are dynamic subject positions, and phenomena can occupy both at the same time, or neither, depending on who is doing the positioning, and what issues are at stake. This book details an approach that avoids constructing ‘religion’ as in some way unique, whilst also fully incorporating ‘non-religious’ subject positions into religious studies. It provides a rich engagement with a wide variety of theoretical material, rooted in empirical data, which will be essential reading for those interested in critical, sociological and anthropological study of the contemporary non-/religious landscape.

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About the Authors

Christopher R. Cotter is a Staff Tutor in Sociology and Religious Studies at the Open University, UK.

Bettina E. Schmidt is Professor in the Study of Religions and Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK.

Steven J. Sutcliffe is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the co-editor (with Carole Cusack) of The Problem of Invented Religions (2016) and (with Ingvild Gilhus) of New Age Spirituality: Rethinking Religion (2014) and is the author of Children of the New Age: A History of Spiritual Practices (2003).

Amy Allocco is a professor of religious studies at Elon University, USA.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350325791
ISBN 13 
9781350325791
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
266