Apparitions and Apparatuses
On the Framing and Staging of Religious Events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12202046 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Jackson (0000-0002-3654-1891, Department for the History of Religions, Stockholm UniversitySE-10691 Stockholm, Stockholm University, Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 291-300 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0943-3058 • E-ISSN: 1570-0682 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006812x638274 |
| OpenAlex | W2072287885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
Two assumptions associated with the burgeoning field of cultural studies—the indeterminacy of meaning and the strategic play of power determining the limits of knowledge—are often prescribed as antidotes to the delusions of religion and scientific realism. We need not wholeheartedly subscribe to this epistemic relativism to acknowledge that similar assumptions could also apply to situations that are overtly framed and staged within culture so as to invite momentary participation. Despite the occasional insistence on unconditional faith and adherence, this seems especially true of religious behaviour. In demonstrating how such assumptions can be productively redescribed as focal concerns of religious participation, this paper endeavors to remove religion from some of the dichotomous sets (e.g., belief/disbelief, rationality/irrationality, obligation/freedom, agency/chance) in which it often gets entangled
Agency (philosophy · Dismissal · Epistemology · Faith · Framing (construction · Irrationality · Obligation · Political science · Rationality · Realism · Relativism · Secularization · Sociology · Subjectivism · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies · Study and Philosophy of Religion · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |