A Contextual Genealogical Approach to Study the Religious

The paper seeks to fill the gap in the literature that on the one hand adopts productively a Foucauldian genealogical approach to analyze religious phenomena yet on the other hand offers only minimum details, or no account, of methodological criteria and analytical procedures. Drawing retrospectivel...

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Main Author: Zavala-Pelayo, Edgar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 284-308
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Genealogy / The Religious / Methodology / Science of Religion / Postcolonialism
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
Further subjects:B Context
B Genealogy
B Methodology
B Religion
B History
B Foucault
B pastoral power
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Summary:The paper seeks to fill the gap in the literature that on the one hand adopts productively a Foucauldian genealogical approach to analyze religious phenomena yet on the other hand offers only minimum details, or no account, of methodological criteria and analytical procedures. Drawing retrospectively on the methodological experiences and insights of the author’s previous genealogical exercises, and the findings of some of the works above, the paper develops a contextual genealogical approach to study the religious in colonial and post-colonial settings with a Christian background. Based on a critical adoption of Nietzschean and Foucauldian tenets and six strategic analytical axes, the approach is presented as an open and flexible context-oriented methodological alternative for the necessarily constant rethinking of the religious in the present.
ISSN:1570-0682
Contains:Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341526