LEADER 03853nam 22004695 450 001 9910160302003321 005 20210716202707.0 010 $a1-4798-8290-9 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479882908 035 $a(CKB)3710000001025783 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4717760 035 $a(DE-B1597)547941 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479882908 035 $a(OCoLC)969740233 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001025783 100 $a20200608h20172017 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlternative Sociologies of Religion $eThrough Non-Western Eyes /$fJames V. Spickard 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (259 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a1-4798-2663-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: A sociologist thinks about religion --$t1. Sociology?s default view of religion --$t2. The default view?s historical- cultural origins --$t3. To china: A Confucian alternative --$t4. China applied: feeding the holy community --$t5. To north Africa: an Arab judge looks at history --$t6. Ibn Khaldun applied: Medjugorje and the Islamic state --$t7. To the American southwest: Navajo ritual and the experience of time --$t8. Navajo ritual applied: world- healing at the catholic worker --$t9. Are we stealing the Elgin marbles? --$tPostscript: living in a global world --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the author 330 $aUncovers what the sociology of religion would look like had it emerged in a Confucian, Muslim, or Native American culture rather than in a Christian one Sociology has long used Western Christianity as a model for all religious life. As a result, the field has tended to highlight aspects of religion that Christians find important, such as religious beliefs and formal organizations, while paying less attention to other elements. Rather than simply criticizing such limitations, James V. Spickard imagines what the sociology of religion would look like had it arisen in three non-Western societies. What aspects of religion would scholars see more clearly if they had been raised in Confucian China? What could they learn about religion from Ibn Khaldun, the famed 14th century Arab scholar? What would they better understand, had they been born Navajo, whose traditional religion certainly does not revolve around beliefs and organizations? Through these thought experiments, Spickard shows how non-Western ideas understand some aspects of religions?even of Western religions?better than does standard sociology. The volume shows how non-Western frameworks can shed new light on several different dimensions of religious life, including the question of who maintains religious communities, the relationships between religion and ethnicity as sources of social ties, and the role of embodied experience in religious rituals. These approaches reveal central aspects of contemporary religions that the dominant way of doing sociology fails to notice. Each approach also provides investigators with new theoretical resources to guide them deeper into their subjects. The volume makes a compelling case for adopting a global perspective in the social sciences. 606 $aReligion and sociology 606 $aReligions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 615 0$aReligions. 676 $a306.6 700 $aSpickard$b James V.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0893826 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160302003321 996 $aAlternative Sociologies of Religion$92467175 997 $aUNINA