Aliens & Strangers? - The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals

Based on in-depth fieldwork with a conservative evangelical church in London, Aliens and Strangers? explores the everyday realities of what it means to try to hold on to a strong sense of religious identity in a secular, modern urban context.

List of contents

• 1: Modernity, Faith, and the City


• 2: Dividing the Subject: Embodiment, Interrelationality, and Ethical Subjectivity


• 3: Speaking Subjects: Difference, Indifference, and Moral Fragmentation


• 4: The Listening 'I'


• 5: What does God want? Coherence, Love, and the Personality of God


• 6: Of Time, the Body and the City: Belief, Absence, and Incompleteness


• Conclusion: The Conflict and Tragedy of Culture


• Bibliography

About the author

Anna Strhan is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. Her research interests are in the sociology of religion, in conversation with the sociology of the family, childhood studies, urban sociology, the sociology of the body, and the anthropology of religion and ethics. She is the author of Levinas, Subjectivity, Education: Towards an Ethics of Radical Responsibility (2012).

Summary

Based on in-depth fieldwork with a conservative evangelical church in London, Aliens and Strangers? explores the everyday realities of what it means to try to hold on to a strong sense of religious identity in a secular, modern urban context.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Strhan, Anna (Lecturer in Religious Studies Strhan, Strhan Anna
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2019
• EAN: 9780198842385
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884238-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Christianity, Religious issues & debates, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religious issues and debates