Religious Studies and the Spiritual Turn

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Sharday Mosurinjohn ◽  
Galen Watts
Keyword(s):  
Business Education ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Semantic Shift ◽  
Professional Fields ◽  
Professional Study ◽  
Critical Religion ◽  
Cultural Structure

Abstract This article surveys the range of positions from which religious studies scholars have generally responded to the spiritual turn. We classify these as: the sociology of religion approach, the critical religion approach, and the practical study for spirituality by professional fields like business, education, and healthcare. In light of recent cultural sociological and historical scholarship on the emic folk category “spirituality” we argue that, given their foundational assumptions, each of these approaches is inadequate for achieving an accurate empirical account of the spiritual turn. We argue that for sociology of religion and critical religion to adequately respond to the professional study for spirituality, they must begin to reckon with the minority consensus developed by cultural sociologists about the spiritual turn. The minority consensus holds that the spiritual turn comprises two components: first, a semantic shift from “religion” to “spirituality,” and second, the crystallization and spread of a shared cultural structure. Coming to terms with this approach will require scholars of religion to reconsider both their assumptions about the category “religion” as well as the limits of their discipline.

Psychology of Religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
O. Karagodina
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies

Psychology of religion as a branch of religious studies, in contrast to the philosophy and sociology of religion, focuses attention mainly on the problems of individual religiosity - the phenomena of religious experience, religious beliefs, mechanisms of the emergence and development of religious experience. The psychology of religion studies the experience of the supernatural person, the psychological roots of this experience and its significance for the subjective. Since a person is formed and operates in a society, the study of religious experience must include its social sources.

scholarly journals Sociology of Religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Babiy
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Phenomenology Of Religion

In the structural architectonics of religious studies one of the important places is the sociology of religion. Being in close intercourse with philosophy, history, psychology, phenomenology of religion, culturology and ethics, it also appears as a specific branch of socio-scientific knowledge.

scholarly journals Revisiting methodological basis of religiousity research in sports

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
E. E. Gres
Keyword(s):  
Religious Commitment ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Sacred Stories ◽  
Sports Activities

Sport is still a «blind spot» in religious studies; meanwhile, the phenomenon of modern sport, from the point of view of its sociocultural determination, value and semantic content, is of great interest to the sciences of religious rituals. At first glance, the empirical facts about sport are quite ordinary. For all participants and attentive observers, physical efforts and sport results are fed by carefully constructed worlds of sacred stories, symbols and personal rituals. The increasing number of athletes involved in sports activities claim the priority of spiritual growth in the process of training and competitions over physical metamorphoses. Champions talk frankly about their religious views and demonstrate confessional affiliation, building bridges between personal rituals and their victories or defeats, which makes it possible to think about including sports in the field of religious studies. The objective of the present research is to analyze the theoretical and methodological foundations of studying the phenomenon of athletes’ religious commitment, as well as adapting existing approaches to distinguishing types of religious and non-religious individuals, taking into account the specifics of this group. Based on the results of empirical studies of the last twenty years developed in Russian sociology of religion, the author reveals their potential for solving urgent problems. In this article, the author focuses on the methods of studying the religiosity of modern athletes. One of the problems is the construction of classification demonstrating athletes’ religiosity taking into account the specifics of their activities, as well as the possibilities of representing their beliefs through religious practices before / during / after competitions.

Where are you organizationally situated? Views from here

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-285
Author(s):  
Wendy Cadge ◽  
Becky Barton
Keyword(s):  
Professional Associations ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Christian Origins ◽  
The Relationship

We reflect personally and historically on some of the institutions that have nurtured and shaped conversations at the intersections of sociology and religious studies, particularly professional associations. Our argument is simple. The ways different scholars understand the relationship between the sociology of religion and religious studies have a lot to do with the institutions that nurtured us and through which we engage in the conversation. We push back on simple black and white distinctions that paint their approaches in oppositions: more historical vs. more contemporary, more qualitative vs. more quantitative, more concerned with normative concerns vs. more “objective”—in favor of a more nuanced view. We keep in mind the Christian origins of the main professional organizations at these intersections and call for deeper dialogue not just between sociologists and scholars in religious studies but with colleagues involved with a range of other groups.

Globalizing Asian Religions

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Asian Religions

This book brings together the insights of theories of management and marketing to give an original view of the organizational dynamics of globalizing Asian New Religious Movements (NRMs) and established religions. Seventeen authors in this collection have recast their data on individual Asian religions and social movements to focus on the way these organizations are managed in an overseas or global context, by examining the structure, organizational culture, management style, leadership principles and marketing strategies of the religious movements they had hitherto studied from the perspective of the sociology of religion, or religious studies. The book examines strategies for global proselytization and outcomes in a variety of local ethnographic contexts, thus contributing to the scholarly work on the ‘glocalization’ of religions.

Picturing Religious Diversity

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Catherine Holtmann ◽  
Nancy Nason-Clark
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Between the two of us, we have many years of teaching undergraduate students in a wide range of courses in the fields of sociology of religion and religious studies. Our experience has led us to use an “active learning pedagogy” in teaching undergraduate students that incorporates multimedia online resources. In this article we explain the reasoning behind our pedagogical practices as well as the resources that we have developed for the Religion and Diversity Project—a project dedicated to addressing some of the challenges and opportunities presented by the growing religious diversity in Canadian society and beyond.

scholarly journals Религията в теоретичното поле на съвременните балкански изследователи (контекстът на разпадането на бивша Югославия)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Нонка [Nonka] Богомилова [Bogomilova]
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Ethical Attitude ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

Religion Within the Theoretical Field of Contemporary Balkan Scholars (In the Context of the Collapse of the Former Yugoslavia)This study aims to describe and analyse the main topics and trends in the study of religion in contemporary Balkan countries. It pays special attention to the contemporary sociology of religion in the former Yugoslavian countries: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Various theoretical approaches are presented that are used in order to understand the dynamic processes that have developed in the contemporary religious situation. The topics and discussions at various seminar sessions, conferences, and workshops are analyzed as theoretical reflection on religion and as an ethical attitude towards intellectual and cultural developments and processes accompanying social change, the war in former Yugoslavia, and the post-communist transformations in the end of 20th and the beginning of 21st century. The relevant publications and organizational forms are outlined. The mutual collaboration among Balkan scholars and the forms of international relations developed in the Balkans within the framework of religious studies are described. Religia w polu teoretycznym współczesnych badaczy bałkańskich (w kontekście rozpadu byłej Jugosławii)Celem artykułu jest opis i analiza głównych tematów i trendów we współczesnej nauce o religii na Bałkanach. Autorka skupia się na współczesnej socjologii religii w krajach byłej Jugosławii (Chorwacji, Słowenii, Serbii, Macedonii Północnej, Czarnogórze, Bośni i Hercegowinie) i wskazuje na różne podejścia teoretyczne, jakie stosowane są do zrozumienia dynamicznych procesów, którym podlega obecnie sytuacja wyznaniowa. Tematy i dyskusje na różnych sesjach seminaryjnych, konferencjach i warsztatach są tu interpretowane jako teoretyczna refleksja nad religią oraz jako wyraz etycznego podejścia do procesów intelektualnych i kulturowych towarzyszącym zmianom społecznym, wojnie w byłej Jugosławii i transformacjom postkomunistycznym na przełomie XX i XXI wieku. W artykule przedstawione zostały istotne publikacje i formy organizacyjne. Opisana została współpraca bałkańskich uczonych i formy stosunków międzynarodowych, jakie rozwinęły się na tym obszarze w ramach studiów religijnych.

scholarly journals Kearifan Lokal Pesantren sebagai Bangunan Ideal Moderasi Islam Masyarakat Madura

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-240
Author(s):  
Zainuddin Syarif ◽  
Abd Hannan
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social System ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
Library Method

In many social studies, Madura is known as an archipelago with its various local wisdom, embodied in the socio-religious systems and structures of pesantren. Pesantren is a social system and structure that contains local values which have great influence especially on the formation of Islamic traditions among the Madurese community. This study employs a qualitative approach with a library method, combined with the perspective of the sociology of religion. Theoretically, this study is aimed to enrich the scholarship on social and religious studies, and practically to build Islamic culture that upholds the values of moderatism. The findings of this study contain an in-depth description of local wisdom values of pesantren in Madura, their role in, and influence on, the formation of Islamic moderatism among the Madurese community.

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