A Contextual Genealogical Approach to Study the Religious

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ID12202746
AuthorsEdgar Zavala-Pelayo (0000-0001-6060-2351, Assistant Professor, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos (CES), El Colegio de México Mexico City Mexico, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume34
Issue3
Pages284-308
Publication date2021-10-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMethod & Theory in the Study of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0943-3058 • E-ISSN: 1570-0682
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15700682-12341526
OpenAlexW3208305758
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited62

The paper seeks to fill the gap in the literature that on the one hand adopts productively a Foucauldian genealogical approach to analyze religious phenomena yet on the other hand offers only minimum details, or no account, of methodological criteria and analytical procedures. Drawing retrospectively on the methodological experiences and insights of the author’s previous genealogical exercises, and the findings of some of the works above, the paper develops a contextual genealogical approach to study the religious in colonial and post-colonial settings with a Christian background. Based on a critical adoption of Nietzschean and Foucauldian tenets and six strategic analytical axes, the approach is presented as an open and flexible context-oriented methodological alternative for the necessarily constant rethinking of the religious in the present

Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Sociology · History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Theological Perspectives and Practices

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