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Making Religion
Discursive approaches to the study of religion have received a lot of attention recently. Making Religion brings together leading theorists in the field who explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of the analysis of religious discourse. The volume provides an overview of current debates in the field, extends and improves upon contemporary theories and methodologies, and contributes to the discipline more broadly by flagging the importance of this emerging field of research. The combination of theoretical reflection and practical application of discourse analysis as a tool to study religion opens up new perspectives for future research. Contributors are: Helge Årsheim, Stephanie Garling, Adrian Hermann, Titus Hjelm, Mitsutoshi Horii, George Ioannides, Jay Johnston, Reiner Keller, Jens Köhrsen, Marcus Moberg, Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer, Leif-Hagen Seibert, Adrián Tovar Simoncic, Kocku von Stuckrad, Teemu Taira, and Frans Wijsen.
HabitusAnalysis 2 – Praxeology and Meaning
Starting from the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, Schäfer composes a methodical approach to habitus of social actors and the logic of their praxis: Building upon the generative terms of praxeology, he focuses on identity and strategy in processes of internalization, their transformation by means of dispositional schemes, and their externalization in action. The emphasis lies on a theory of dispositions that allows a flexible understanding of identity and strategy formation in the context of social experience and the interplay with social structures. This theory is developed over the course of a three-step analysis on habitus as a network of dispositions, on the dynamics that unfold between th...
Religious Credibility under Fire
Leif-Hagen Seibert carries out a three-step praxeological analysis of empirical data from field studies in the research project “The ethos of religious peace builders” that allows for novel assessments of societal conjuncture (field theory), subjective meaning (habitus analysis), and the mutual ‘rules of engagement’ of religious practice (the religious nomos). Over the course of this three-step argument, the sociological concept of religious credibility – i.e. the determinants of religious legitimacy – gains more and more contours and facilitates the reevaluation of risks and chances in a peace process where religion is a vector for both peace and division.
Empirical Investigations of Social Space
This book provides an in-depth view on Bourdieu’s empirical work, thereby specially focusing on the construction of the social space and including the concept of the habitus. Themes described in the book include amongst others: • the theory and methodology for the construction of “social spaces”, • the relation between various “fields” and “the field of power”, • formal construction and empirical observation of habitus, • the formation, accumulation, differentiation of and conversion between different forms of capital, • relations in geometric data analysis. The book also includes contributions regarding particular applications of Bourdieu’s methodology to traditional and new areas of research, such as the analysis of institutional, international and transnational fields. It further provides a systematic introduction into the empirical construction of the social space.
HabitusAnalysis 1
This book is the first of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis that take the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point to develop a methodical approach to the habitus of social actors. However, the concept of habitus and Bourdieu’s approach to language are somewhat disputed while his relationist epistemology is seldom paid tribute to. The present volume therefore in its first part deals with Bourdieu’s roots in relationist Neo-Kantian philosophy, the basic traits of his relationist sociology. The second part examines Bourdieu’s theoretical and empirical work on language before elaborating its own praxeological concept of language use that opens the road to a methodically and theoret...
Religious Credibility under Fire
Leif-Hagen Seibert carries out a three-step praxeological analysis of empirical data from field studies in the research project “The ethos of religious peace builders” that allows for novel assessments of societal conjuncture (field theory), subjective meaning (habitus analysis), and the mutual ‘rules of engagement’ of religious practice (the religious nomos). Over the course of this three-step argument, the sociological concept of religious credibility – i.e. the determinants of religious legitimacy – gains more and more contours and facilitates the reevaluation of risks and chances in a peace process where religion is a vector for both peace and division.
Language and Religion
This volume draws on an interdisciplinary team of authors to advance the study of the religious dimensions of communication and the linguistic aspects of religion. Contributions cover: poetry, iconicity, and iconoclasm in religious language; semiotic ideologies in traditional religions and in secularism; and the role of materiality and writing in religious communication. This volume will provoke new approaches to language and religion.
The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas
The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western Hemisphere. The flow of peoples, goods, knowledge and finances have promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America together. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected region can only be captured through a transnational, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive approach. The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas explores the history and societ...
Religión, identidad y movilización en contexto de crisis
La praxis religiosa es cada vez mas relevante como respuesta a las multiples crisis que azotan el continente. En parte tiene rasgos de resistencia, en parte legitima incluso las causas de las crisis. Por ello, es de igual relevancia tener herramientas para comprender la praxis religiosa en medio de los procesos y estructuras sociales. Este libro presenta un enfoque sociologico de la religion basado en la praxeologia del sociologo frances Pierre Bourdieu, ampliando de manera critica su metodologia y aplicandola al estudio empirico de la praxis religiosa. El hilo conductor epistemologico es un concepto relacional de sociedad que descansa en la correspondencia entre el sentido practico de los a...
Identität als Netzwerk
Identität kann nach Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer als Netzwerk von Dispositionen des Wahrnehmens, Urteilens und Handelns begriffen werden. So lassen sich kollektive Akteure wie religiöse, ethnische oder politische Bewegungen in ihren sozialen Entstehungs- und Operationskontexten neuartig beschreiben. Bourdieus Soziologie weiterführend, kann das Zusammenspiel von kognitiven, affektiven und leiblichen Dispositionen mit den Dynamiken gesellschaftlicher Differenz und Konfliktivität als menschliche Praxis erfasst werden. Akteure kommen somit über subjektive Einstellungen und gesellschaftliche Positionierung, Reproduktivität und Kreativität des Handelns, Übereinstimmungen und Differenzen in den Blick. Kollektive Mobilisierung individueller Identitäten wird ebenso plausibel wie der Zusammenhang zwischen dispositionaler Orientierung und strategischem Kalkül. Schäfer entwickelt aus der empirischen Untersuchung religiöser Bewegungen in einem Counter-Insurgency-Krieg eine methodisch operationalisierte Theorie der Identität, die unmittelbar anschlussfähig ist an die bei Springer erschienene praxeologische Epistemologie und Methodologie der HabitusAnalysis.
