Contemporary western ethnography and the definition of religion

著者

    • Stringer, Martin D.

書誌事項

Contemporary western ethnography and the definition of religion

M.D. Stringer

（Continuum advances in religious studies）

Continuum, 2008

  • : hb
  • : pbk.

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-124) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: hb ISBN 9780826499783

内容説明

Is a person sitting next to a grave of a loved one, talking to the deceased person, engaging in a religious act? Many traditional definitions of religion would probably say no. However, the research that forms the basis of this book suggests that such activity is very widespread in contemporary Britain and the author aims to argue that it is probably much more typical of a fundamental religious act than much of what happens in churches, synagogues or mosques. Beginning with the definitions of religion provided by a number of anthropologists and sociologists this book claims that the large majority of these definitions have been influenced by Christian thinking, so leading to definitions that stress the systematic nature of religion, the importance of the transcendental and the transformative activity of religion. Through a detailed exploration of a number of ethnographic studies of religious activity in various parts of England, these aspects of traditional definitions are challenged. Martin Stringer argues, borrowing Durkheim's language, that the most elementary form of religious life in many Western societies today, and by implication in many other societies around the world, is situational, mundane and concerned with helping people to cope with their day to day lives.

目次

  • 1. Introduction: Defining Religion
  • 2. On Ethnography
  • 3. Situational Belief
  • 4. Of Graveyards and Kitchens
  • 5. Of Star Signs and Soap Operas
  • 6. Where are all the Men?
  • 7. Returning to the Elementary Forms of Religious Life.
巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9781441141460

内容説明

Exploring whether the widespread activity of sitting next to a grave and talking to a deceased person is a religious act forms the basis of this book, and the author argues that it is probably much more typical of a fundamental religious act than much of what happens in churches, synagogues or mosques. Beginning with the definitions of religion provided by a number of anthropologists and sociologists this book claims that the large majority of these definitions have been influenced by Christian thinking, so leading to definitions that stress the systematic nature of religion, the importance of the transcendental and the transformative activity of religion. Through a detailed exploration of a number of ethnographic studies of religious activity, these aspects of traditional definitions are challenged. Borrowing Durkheim's language, Martin D. Stringer argues that the most elementary form of religious life in many Western societies today, and by implication in many other societies around the world, is situational, mundane and concerned with helping people to cope with their day-to-day lives.

目次

  • Forward: Chatting to Gran at her Grave
  • 1. On Defining Religion
  • 2. On Ethnography
  • 3. Of Requiems and Reincarnation
  • 4. Of Graveyards and Kitchens
  • 5. Of Star Signs and Soap Operas
  • 6. On Gender
  • 7. On the Elementary Form of Religious Life
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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