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What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
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Description for What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Hardback. Editor(s): Bender, Courtney; Taves, Ann. Series: A Columbia / SSRC Book. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 recorded music items. BIC Classification: HRAM; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Over the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholars to rethink secularity and its relationship to society. Since classifying a person, activity, or experience as religious or otherwise is an important act of valuation, one that defines the characteristics of a group and its relation to others, scholars are struggling to recast these concepts in our increasingly ambiguous, pluralistic world. This collection considers religious and secular categories and what they mean to those who seek valuable, ethical lives. As they investigate how individuals and groups determine significance, set goals, and attribute meaning, contributors illustrate ... Read more
Over the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholars to rethink secularity and its relationship to society. Since classifying a person, activity, or experience as religious or otherwise is an important act of valuation, one that defines the characteristics of a group and its relation to others, scholars are struggling to recast these concepts in our increasingly ambiguous, pluralistic world. This collection considers religious and secular categories and what they mean to those who seek valuable, ethical lives. As they investigate how individuals and groups determine significance, set goals, and attribute meaning, contributors illustrate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
A Columbia / SSRC Book
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231156844
SKU
V9780231156844
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About Bender
Courtney Bender, associate professor of religion at Columbia University, is the author of The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination, winner of the 2011 AAP PROSE Award for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing in Theology/Religious Studies, and coeditor, with Pamela Klassen, of After Pluralism: Reimagining Models of Interreligious Engagement. Ann Taves is professor of religious studies at the ... Read more
Reviews for What Matters?: Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
A window onto how spirituality has functioned as a social category that bestows value on even 'secular' objects, What Matters? brilliantly demystifies spirituality without banishing spirits. With an embarrassment of riches at hand, including paranormal shadows in 'real' science, turns to 'tribalism' in psytrance festivals, and 'spiritual' motivations within secular humanitarianism, these essays are an original foray into how spirituality ... Read more