Believing in Belonging
Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199673551
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages242 pages
- Size 216x142x13 mm
- Weight 294 g
- Language English 90
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Short description:
Drawing on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries, Abby Day explores how people 'believe in belonging', choosing religious identifications to complement other social and emotional experiences of 'belongings'.
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Believing in Belonging draws on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries. Starting from a qualitative study based in northern England, and then broadening the data to include other parts of Europe and North America, Abby Day explores how people 'believe in belonging', choosing religious identifications to complement other social and emotional experiences of 'belongings'. The concept of 'performative belief' helps explain how otherwise non-religious people can bring into being a Christian identity related to social belongings.
What is often dismissed as 'nominal' religious affiliation is far from an empty category, but one loaded with cultural 'stuff' and meaning. Day introduces an original typology of natal, ethnic and aspirational nominalism that challenges established disciplinary theory in both the European and North American schools of the sociology of religion that assert that most people are 'unchurched' or 'believe without belonging' while privately maintaining beliefs in God and other 'spiritual' phenomena.
This study provides a unique analysis and synthesis of anthropological and sociological understandings of belief and proposes a holistic, organic, multidimensional analytical framework to allow rich cross cultural comparisons. Chapters focus in particular on: the genealogies of 'belief' in anthropology and sociology, methods for researching belief without asking religious questions, the acts of claiming cultural identity, youth, gender, the 'social' supernatural, fate and agency, morality and a development of anthropocentric and theocentric orientations that provides a richer understanding of belief than conventional religious/secular distinctions.
I find the book highly interesting, in particular its methodology and its empirically-based conclusions. It is an important contribution to the current debates within the sociology of religion. It is also an easily approachable book, which can be read by anyone who is interested in research on belief.
Table of Contents:
1: Methods and theoretical frameworks
Genealogies of belief in sociology and anthropology: transcending disciplinary boundaries
A research journey begins
2: Cosmologies of the mainstream
Believing in belonging: the cultural act of claiming identity
Youth and belief: belonging to connected selves
The sensuous social supernatural
Believing in fate: covering the cracks in belonging
Boundaries of belonging: doing unto ourselves
3: Relocating belief and belonging
Theorising belief: an holistic, organic, seven-dimensional model
Understanding Christian nominalism: rethinking Christian identity
Conclusion: relocating belief to the social
