Making Religion: Theory and Practice in the Discursive Study of Religion

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Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

PART 1: Theoretical Reflections

1: Theory and Method in Critical Discursive Study of Religion: An Outline

2: No Danger! The Current Re-evaluation of Religion and Luhmann’s Concept of Risk

3: The Matter of Meaning and the Meaning of Matter: Explorations for the Material and Discursive Study of Religion

4: Slippery and Saucy Discourse: Grappling with the Intersection of ‘Alternate Epistemologies’ and Discourse Analysis

5: Distinctions of Religion: The Search for Equivalents of ‘Religion’ and the Challenge of Theorizing a ‘Global Discourse of Religion’

6: Discourse on ‘Religion’ in Organizing Social Practices: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

7: Towards a Praxeology of Religious Life: Modes of Observation

PART 2: Contexts and Cases

8: Towards a Praxeology of Religious Life: Tools of Observation

9: Religion and Science in Transformation: On Discourse Communities, the Double-Bind of Discourse Research, and Theoretical Controversies

10: Indonesian Muslim or World Citizen? Religious Identity in the Dutch Integration Discourse

11: Exploring the Spread of Marketization Discourse in the Nordic Folk Church Context

12: Critical Reflections on the Religious-Secular Dichotomy in Japan

13: Whose Religion, What Freedom? Discursive Constructions of Religion in the Work of un Special Rapporteurs on the Freedom of Religion or Belief

PART 3: Response

14: The Complex Discursivity of Religion

Index