1st Edition
Religion and the Individual Belief, Practice, Identity
Edited By Abby Day
Copyright 2008
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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What does religion mean to the individual? How are people religious and what do their beliefs, practices and identities mean to them? The individual's place within studies of religion has tended to be overlooked recently in favour of macro analyses. Religion and the Individual draws together authors from around the world to explore belief, practice and identity. Using original case studies and... Read more
Religion and the Individual
Biography
Dr Abby Day is based at the University of Sussex, UK.
'This volume brings together a significant set of reflections on the meaning of religion for the individual as well as society. In doing so it makes a timely and valuable contribution to our understanding both of individualizing tendencies within religion, and of appropriate theoretical and methodological responses to that shift.' Professor Linda Woodhead, Director AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme, Lancaster University, UK
