Infrastructure and American religion

Sites, methods, and theories for a changing field

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4299527
AutoresIsaiah Ellis (0000-0003-3646-183X, University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen17
Número8
Fecha de publicación2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rec3.12475
OpenAlexW4386069320
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas51

This article reviews the literature on infrastructure in the study of American religions, examining its recent emergence as a topic of study and demonstrating its deeper role in the canons of the field. It argues that infrastructure has quickly become a multivalent conceptual term in the field, as well as a site for research. This latter point leads to a detailed summation of infrastructure's role in constructing and challenging the conventional boundaries of what "religion" is in America, what is "American" about American religion, and how scholars of religion might rethink "America" as a geographic and conceptual formation for our study. Infrastructure has an important role to play in creative theoretical and methodological engagements in the study of American religion and in fact has already staked its claim in the field's ongoing transformation

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