The Insider/Outsider Debate

New Perspectives in the Study of Religion

George D Chryssides editor Stephen E Gregg editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Equinox Publishing Ltd

Published:15th Oct '19

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The Insider/Outsider Debate cover

The distinction between “insiders” and “outsiders” in religious studies has become an area of fruitful discussion in recent years. This anthology aims to extend that discussion by gathering newly commissioned essays from a diverse range of scholars, spanning a variety of disciplines and approaches, including ethnography, anthropology, theology and education. The result is a book that is at once accessible and readable, while remaining scholarly. The Insider/Outsider Debate has implications for numerous methodological issues in the study of religion, such as the emic/etic distinction, the distinction between religion and spirituality, the notions of “believing without belonging”, the claim to be “spiritual but not religious” and the existence of multiple, complicated, contesting religious identities. A particular focus of the volume is providing critiques of these methodological issues within the most recent academic approaches to religion – particularly models of lived and vernacular religion.

ISBN: 9781781793442

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1642g

434 pages