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media --- religion --- mass communication --- sociology of religion

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Diese Studie dringt in den Kern des organisierten Säkularismus der Schweiz vor. Dazu rückt sie die Freidenkerbewegung in den Fokus einer soziologischen Analyse und bearbeitet zwei aufeinander bezogene Themenkomplexe: Einerseits zeichnet sie ein umfassendes Porträt, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf die Mobilisierung von Mitgliedern sowie Ressourcen, auf die Mitgliedschaftsstruktur in soziodemografischer und biografischer Hinsicht, auf kollektiv geteilte Identitätsvorstellungen und auf Erwartungen sowie Haltungen der Mitglieder. Andererseits bettet sie ihren Untersuchungsgegenstand in eine Umwelt ein, die geprägt ist von Säkularisierung und einer Politisierung des Religiösen. Bearbeitet werden diese beiden Themenkomplexe auf Basis eines mixed-methods Designs, das im Feld erhobene Umfragedaten systematisch kombiniert mit semistrukturierten Interviews. Die Studie kommt zum Schluss, dass das Freidenkertum vom Wandel in seiner Umwelt profitiert, während es gleichsam darunter leidet. Denn Religion und das Religiöse sind anhaltend gut dafür geeignet, um Ressourcen unterschiedlicher Art zu mobilisieren. Gleichzeitig verliert die Frage der religiösen Zugehörigkeit an gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung, was auch den säkularistischen Gegenpart dieser Zugehörigkeitskategorie erodieren lässt. This study sociologically analyzes the freethought movement in Switzerland in two main themes: firstly, it paints a comprehensive picture of the movement, with a special emphasis on mobilization, the structure of membership, collective identity, and activism. Secondly, it embeds its object of study within an environment that was shaped by secularization and the politicization of the religious.

criticism of religion. --- humanism. --- mixed-methods. --- sociology of religion.

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In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic environments. As a sense of religious belonging is instilled on a daily basis in the home, it also becomes emotionally linked to family, community, and homeland, resulting in two different genealogies - one to do with faith and one to do with motherland - that become entangled.

Sociology of religion --- Sociology of culture --- Popular culture --- Material culture --- Religious aspects.

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The revised essays collected here, four of which are published for the first time, continue a longstanding argument made by McCutcheon and others: that the study of religion would benefit from self-conscious scrutiny of its tools, the interests that may drive them, and the effects that might follow their use. The chapters examine a variety of contemporary sites in the modern field where this thesis can be argued, whether involving the anachronistic use of of the category religion when studying the ancient world to current interest in so-called critical religion or critical realist approaches. Moreover - contrary to some past characterizations of such critiques - a constructive way forward for the field is once again recommended and, at several sites, exemplified in detail: redescribing not only religion as something ordinary but also our tendency to create the impression of exceptional and thus set-apart things, places, and people. Aimed at scholars and students alike, the book is an invitation to examine our own scholarly practices and thereby take a more active role in shaping the field in which we carry out our work as scholars of this thing we call religion.

Religion --- Methodology. --- Study and teaching. --- Religious Studies, Sociology of Religion, Meaning-making.

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This book ('Good Muslims, Modern Citizens: Hui Islamic Revival in Northwest China') explores the hegemonic models of modernity and their alternatives in contemporary China through an anthropological investigation of Islamic revival among Hui, a Chinese-speaking ethnoreligious minority. Examining a variety of formal and informal, religious and semi-religious education activities aimed at children and youth in the poor areas of Northwest China, where Hui communities are most numerous, it traces the impact of nation-building and state modernization policies as well as the intensification of religious and economic contacts with Muslim majority countries on the (self)perceptions of Hui as an inalienable part of the Chinese nation on the one hand and members of the global ummah on the other. The detailed ethnographic study of religious life on a university campus reveals how young Hui negotiate their desires and forge their identities as simultaneously modern, educated Chinese citizens and pious Muslims. With its intimate portrayal of how global transformations are expressed and experienced in the everyday life of people on the margins of China and Muslim world, this book contributes to the growing literature on contemporary Chinese and Muslim religiosities. Skozi antropološko raziskavo islamskega preporoda med Huiji, kitajsko govorečo etnoreligiozno manjšino, knjiga obravnava hegemonične in alternativne modele modernosti v današnji Kitajski. Osredotočujoč se na formalne in neformalne oblike izobraževanja mladih v revnih predelih kitajskega severozahoda, ki v različni meri združujejo verske in ne-verske vsebine, delo preučuje vpliv kitajskih projektov izgradnje moderne nacionalne države ter krepitve verskih in gospodarskih stikov z državami z večinskim muslimanskim prebivalstvom na (samo)percepcije Huijev kot neločljivega dela kitajske nacije po eni in članov globalne umme po drugi strani. Etnografska študija verskega življenja v univerzitetnem kampusu razkriva, kako mladi Huiji prevprašujejo in kujejo svoje identitete kot moderni, izobraženi kitajski državljani ter hkrati pobožni, krepostni muslimani. Z intimnim prikazom načinov, kako se globalne transformacije odražajo v izkušnjah ljudi na obrobjih Kitajske in islamskega sveta, knjiga prispeva k naraščujoči literaturi o sodobni kitajski in muslimanski religioznosti.

China --- Hui people --- Islam --- minorities --- modernization --- sociology of religion --- Huiji --- islam --- Kitajska --- manjšine --- modernizacija --- sociologija religije