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Zusatztext Christopher Cotter's The Critical Study of Non-Religion is an intelligent and innovative study of the porous boundaries between religion and non-religion, which charts a path through the complex interrelations of family, community and individual identity and how these interact with ideological blocs in society, such as nationalism, politics and religion. Cotter insightfully deconstructs monolithic notions of non-religion and demonstrates the overlaps and grey areas that exist between certain religious people and certain non-religious people, in the areas of assumptions, beliefs and praxis. Informationen zum Autor Christopher R. Cotter is a Staff Tutor in Sociology and Religious Studies at the Open University, UK.Brings a critical religious studies approach to non-religion and deconstructs the category of non-religion beyond simply thinking of it as the opposite of religion. Zusammenfassung This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of ‘religion’ and empirical studies of ‘religion in the real world’. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of extensive research in Edinburgh’s Southside which blurs the boundary between ‘religion’ and ‘non-religion’. In doing so, Cotter demonstrates that these are dynamic subject positions, and phenomena can occupy both at the same time, or neither, depending on who is doing the positioning, and what issues are at stake.This book details an approach that avoids constructing ‘religion’ as in some way unique, whilst also fully incorporating ‘non-religious’ subject positions into religious studies. It provides a rich engagement with a wide variety of theoretical material, rooted in empirical data, which will be essential reading for those interested in critical, sociological and anthropological study of the contemporary non-/religious landscape. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Non-Religion, Non-Religions, Non-Religious1. The Contemporary Non-religious Landscape in the UK and Beyond 2. Critical Religion, Critical Non-Religion3. Approaching Non-Religion: Edinburgh, the Southside, and the Religion-Related Field4. Multiple Identifications5. Discursive Entanglements6. Local Particularity7. The Power of Indifference8. Conclusion: There is No Data for Non-ReligionBibliographyIndex...
