Encounters at the Religious Edge

Variation in Religious Expression Across Interfaith Advocacy and Social Movement Settings

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7867609
AutoresGrace Yukich (Department of Sociology Quinnipiac University, autor correspondente), R Braunstein (0000-0002-9080-4234, Department of Sociology University of Connecticut)
Ano2014
Volume53
Fascículo4
Páginas791-807
Data de publicação2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jssr.12142
OpenAlexW2102031027
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas42

In a time of increasing religious diversity, interfaith political coalitions have become important settings for interreligious interaction, but little research has explored the types of religious expression that are generated therein. Prevailing theories in the sociology of religion indicate that interaction with religious others results in dilution of traditional religious commitments or production of stronger boundaries. But emerging perspectives in cultural sociology shift attention from individual religious commitments to the ways in which settings shape different styles of religious expression. Insights about edge spaces drawn from urban theory suggest that religiously diverse settings can be generative of new types of religious practices. We apply these insights to the study of interfaith activism by drawing on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with religious advocacy professionals and activists working in interfaith coalitions. Conceptualizing the sites of these interfaith encounters as edge spaces, we analyze variation in the types of religious expression that occur in interfaith settings. We find that both aggregative and integrative practices are produced, but these vary depending on the goals and structure of the setting, as well as participants’ accountability to outside religious gatekeepers

Diversity (politics) · Ethnography · Expression (computer science) · Political science · Politics · Religious identity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology