Description
What does religion mean to the individual? How are people religious and what do their beliefs, practices and identities mean to them? The individual's place within studies of religion has tended to be overlooked recently in favour of macro analyses. Religion and the Individual draws together authors from around the world to explore belief, practice and identity. Using original case studies and other work firmly placed in the empirical, contributors discuss what religious belief means to the individual. They examine how people embody what religion means to them through practice, considering the different meanings that people attach to religion and the social expressions of their personal understandings and the ways in which religion shapes how people see themselves in relation to others. This work is cross-cultural, with contributions from Asia, Europe and North America.
Table of Contents
Introduction, AbbyDay; Part I Belief; Chapter 1 Cultural Intensification, DouglasDavies; Chapter 2 Speaking Personally, JanetEccles; Chapter 3 Young People’s Spirituality and the Meaning of Prayer, SylviaCollins-Mayo; Chapter 4 Who are the Believers in Religion in China?, XiaowenLu, RichardO’Leary, YaojunLi; Part II Practice; Chapter 5 New Paradigm Christianity and Commitment-formation, Jayeel SerranoCornelio; Chapter 6 A Peaceable Common, Kevin S.Reimer, Alvin C.Dueck, Joshua P.Morgan, DeborahE. Kessel; Chapter 7 Autonomous Conformism – the Paradox of Entrepreneurial Protestantism. Spring Harvest, RobWarner; Chapter 8 Social vs. Spiritual Capital in Explaining Philanthropic Giving in a Muslim Setting, AliÇarko?lu; Part III Identity; Chapter 9 Development of the Religious Self, David M.Bell; Chapter 10 Accommodating the Individual and the Social, the Religious and the Secular, PeterCollins; Chapter 11 Religion and the Individual, RussellSandberg; Chapter 12 Freedom in Chains, MichaelKeenan; Chapter 13 Religious Identity and Millenarian Belief in Santo Daime, AndrewDawson;
