BOOKS - Religion in English Everyday Life
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Religion in English Everyday Life
Author: Timothy Jenkins
Year: 1999
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 940 KB
Language: English
Year: 1999
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 940 KB
Language: English
Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life Three contemporary case studies the life of a country church an annual procession by the churches in a Bristol suburb a range of linked spiritualist beliefs disclose the complex patterns and compulsion of ordinary lives including both moral and historical dimensions the distribution of reputation and conflict and the continuities of place and identity At the same time the approach revises previous accounts of English social life by giving a nuanced description of the construction of local lives in interaction with their wider setting It demonstrates the creation of local particularity under an outside gaze showing how actors create and cope with the forces of modernity In addition to the original ethnographic descriptions the book also contributes to the history and theory of the study of complex societies
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