Over the last three decades, fruitful new lines of research and theorizing have revealed the
inadequacy of secularization and rational choice explanations of religion. This article argues …

Look around you as you walk down the street; somewhere, usually hidden in plain sight,
there will be traces of religion. Perhaps it is the person who walks past with a Christian tattoo …

In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably
linked to language and belief, proposing instead that it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing …

This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back
onto the agenda. It challenges a tendency to over-emphasise rational aspects of religion …

In public discourse and much sociological research individuals are considered secular if
they do not hold religious beliefs or belong to any religious group. But can the secular itself …

Recent developments inspired by cognitive science have significant implications for the
sociological study of religion. Studies in cognitive anthropology and related fields such as …

This chapter builds on anthropological studies that examine the role of religious practice in
the construction of belonging within the context of migration. We expand on such studies by …

This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North
America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme …

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Philosophy of religion has recently made a turn to lived religion, an approach which seeks to
understand lived religion as it is experienced concretely by individual practitioners …