Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular

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Agnostic
belief and belonging
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Contemporary Societies
contested boundaries of sacred secular identity
discussion
Dominant Religious Discourse
Durkheim
Emile Durkheim
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fashion
Fashion Bloggers
Fitzgerald's Critique
focus
group
Hospital Chaplaincy
identity
identity negotiation
Immigrant Young Adult
LGBTQI Peoples
Modern Binary
modest
Modest Fashion
Multiple Religious Belonging
NGO Activity
NGO Association
NGO Group
NGO Presence
nonreligious studies
qualitative social research
queer
Queer Spiritual Spaces
religion and society
religious
secularisation theory
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Singular Religious Identity
spaces
spiritual
Umbrella NGO
UN
Violates
Young Adult Canadians
Young Man

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  • ISBN 9781138272286
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Focusing on the important relationship between the 'sacred' and the 'secular', this book demonstrates that it is not paradoxical to think in terms of both secular and sacred or neither, in different times and places. International experts from a range of disciplinary perspectives draw on local, national, and international contexts to provide a fresh analytical approach to understanding these two contested poles. Exploring such phenomena at an individual, institutional, or theoretical level, each chapter contributes to the central message of the book - that the ’in between’ is real, embodied and experienced every day and informs, and is informed by, intersecting social identities. Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular provides an essential resource for continued research into these concepts, challenging us to re-think where the boundaries of sacred and secular lie and what may lie between.

Dr Abby Day is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent where she teaches the anthropology of religion. Her qualitative longitudinal research has expanded conventional views of belief and belonging through empirical research based initially in the UK and extended through cross-cultural comparisons. She and Prof. Gordon Lynch organised the AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Project 'Young People and the Cultural Performance of Belief'. Her latest book, Believing in Belonging: Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World was published in October 2011. She also edited the Ashgate collection, Religion and the Individual, 2008.

Dr Giselle Vincett was research fellow at the University of Edinburgh 2007-2011, primarily working with Dr Elizabeth Olson on two AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society projects, 'Relational Religious Identities' and 'Marginalised Spiritualties: Faith and Religion Among Young People in Socially Deprived Britain'. She also co-edited Women and Religion in the West and The Changing Face of Christianity for Ashgate.

Christopher R. Cotter is completing doctoral work in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK. His theoretical work focuses upon the lived relationships between the concepts of ’religion’, ’non-religion’, and the ’secular’, and his wider interests centre around New Religious Movements, qualitative methods, theories of religion, and Religious Studies as a discipline. Chris has published on contemporary atheism and non-religion, is Managing Editor at the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network and co-founder of The Religious Studies Project.