Religion, spirituality and the social sciences : : Challenging marginalisation /

Religion, spirituality and the social sciences : : Challenging marginalisation / / ed. by Basia Spalek, Alia Imtoual.

A growing number of people are claiming or reclaiming a religious or spiritual identity for themselves. Yet, in contemporary Western societies, the frameworks of understanding that have developed within the social science disciplines, and which are used to analyse data, are secular in nature, and so...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Beckford, James A.,
Farias, Miguel,
Frahm-Arp, Maria,
Francis, Leslie J.,
Gruppetta, Maree,
Hense, Elisabeth,
Humphrey, Caroline,
Imtoual, Alia,
King, Ursula,
Lynch, Gordon,
May, John D’Arcy,
Modood, Tariq,
Newman, Lareen,
Possamai, Adam,
Quraishi, Muzammil,
Randell-Moon, Holly,
Smiljanic, Natassja,
Spalek, Basia,
HerausgeberIn:
Imtoual, Alia,
Spalek, Basia,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction
  • Key debates on secularism and society
  • Political religion: secularity and the study of religion in global civil society
  • Australia’s ‘shy’ de-secularisation process
  • Muslims, equality and secularism
  • Section 116: the politics of secularism in Australian legal and political discourse
  • Dreams of the autonomous and reflexive self: the religious significance of contemporary lifestyle media
  • Marginalisation of religious and spiritual issues
  • Studying religion in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Demographic fertility research: a question of disciplinary beliefs and methods
  • Turning the world upside down
  • Spirituality and gender viewed through a global lens
  • Reading spiritually: transforming knowledge in a new age
  • Reflections on social science research methodologies
  • Self-assigned religious affiliation: a study among adolescents in England and Wales
  • Concepts and misconceptions in the scientific study of spirituality
  • Religion, spirituality and social science: researching Muslims and crime
  • Inadvertent offence: when ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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