Straying from the Straight Path: How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion

If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious...

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其他作者: Beekers, Daan (Editor) ; Kloos, David (Editor)
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出版: New York, NY [publisher not identified] 2017
In:Year: 2017
版:1st edition
丛编:Studies in Social Analysis 3
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 伊斯兰教 / 基督教 / 关系 / Versagen / 宗教行为
Further subjects:B Aufsatzsammlung
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总结:If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith – outside the domain of religion ‘proper.’ Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world
Preface -- Introduction: The Productive Potential of Moral Failure in Lived Islam and Christianity -- David Kloos and Daan Beekers -- Chapter 1. In What Does Failure Succeed? Conceptions of Sin and the Role of Human Moral Vulnerability in Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity -- Joel Robbins and Leanne Williams Green -- Chapter 2. “I’m a Weak Servant”: The Question of Sincerity and the Cultivation of Weakness in the Lives of Dutch Salafi Muslims -- Martijn de Koning -- Chapter 3. Success, Risk and Failure: The Brazilian Prosperity Gospel in Mozambique -- Linda van de Kamp -- Chapter 4. Fitting God in: Secular Routines, Prayer and Deceleration among Young Dutch Muslims and Christians -- Daan Beekers -- Chapter 5. The Ethics of Not-Praying: Religious Negligence, Life Phase and Social Status in Aceh, Indonesia -- David Kloos -- Chapter 6. Moral Failure, Everyday Religion and Islamic Authorization -- Thijl Sunier -- Epilogue: Religion, Lived Religion and the ‘Authenticity’ of Failure -- Mattijs van de Port -- Index --
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ISBN:1785337149