Introduction

The Productive Potential of Moral Failure in Lived Islam and Christianity

Bibliographic Data

ID20041685
AuthorsD Kloos (0000-0003-1063-2581), Daan Beekers
Year2022
Pages1-20
Publication date2022-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueStraying from the Straight Path (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9781785337147-002
OpenAlexW2791082954
ISBN9781785337147
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited42

This volume investigates the dialectical relationship between pursuits of religious coherence and experiences of moral fragmentation by focusing on self-perceived senses of failure.Our premise is that senses of failure offer an important and productive entry point for the study of lived religion in today's world, where religious commitments are often volatile, believers are regularly confronted by alternative lifestyles, worldviews or desires, and religious subjects tend to be self-reflexive.While the experience of failure in religious life has always been a central theme in theology and religious thought, it has long received little attention in the study of lived religion by anthropologists and others.In recent years, however, there has been a growing interest in various modes and moments of (self-perceived) failure, including feelings of incoherence and imperfection in religious life (Lechkar 2012; De Koning 2013; Jouili 2015; Strhan 2015), uncertainty about one's religious identity and the risk of falling back on pre-conversion relationships or habits (Marshall 2009; Pype 2011), doubt about religious truth claims (Luhrmann 2012; Liberatore 2013), ambivalent moral commitments (Schielke 2015), suspension or lack of religious meaning (Engelke and Tomlinson 2006), and unsuccessful careers of aspiring religious leaders (Lauterbach 2008).We focus on Islam and Christianity, not only because these are the main religious traditions in terms of adherents, but also because the anthropology of

Christianity · Islam · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies

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