Occasional Religious Practice - Valuing a Very Ordinary Religious Experience

Sarah Kathleen Johnson introduces the concept of occasional religious practice as a novel yet intuitive way to describe, analyze, and respond to this widespread pattern.

List of contents

• Part 1: Understanding Occasional Religious Practice


• Chapter 1: What is Occasional Religious Practice?


• Chapter 2: Occasional Religious Practice in Context


• Chapter 3: Who are Occasional Practitioners?


• Chapter 4: Why Practice Occasionally?


• Part 2: Occasional Religious Practice as Selective Participation in Ritual Systems


• Chapter 5: Ritual Systems


• Chapter 6: Selective Participation in Ritual Systems


• Chapter 7: Harmony and Dissonance among Ritual Systems


• Part 3: Doing Theology with Occasional Practitioners


• Chapter 8: The Necessity of Doing Theology with Occasional Practitioners


• Chapter 9: Lived Liturgical Theologies of Occasional Practitioners


• Chapter 10: Occasional Practitioners and the Concerns of Ritual Experts


• Conclusion

About the author

Sarah Kathleen Johnson is Assistant Professor of Liturgy and Pastoral Theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research at the intersection of liturgical studies and sociology of religion employs qualitative methods that value everyday religious experience. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Kathleen Johnson, Sarah Kathleen (Assistant Professor of Li Johnson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.04.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780197806548
• ISBN: 978-0-19-780654-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Sermons / Christian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Christianity, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnals, Prayers and liturgical material, Sermons, Christian sermons