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Religion in English Everyday Life : An Ethnographic Approach / Timothy Jenkins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781571817693
  • 9781789205732
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6/0942
LOC classification:
  • BL980.G7 J46 1999
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
CONTENTS -- MAPS AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS IN AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY LIFE -- PART I: TWO SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RELIGION IN MODERN BRITAIN -- PART II: THE COUNTRY CHURCH – THE CASE OF ST. MARY’S, COMBERTON -- PART III: THE KINGSWOOD WHIT WALK -- 1 INTRODUCTORY -- 2 THE WHIT WALK -- 3 FAMILY AND LOCALITY -- 4 ‘FIENDS TRANSFORMED’ A DISCUSSION OF LOCAL HISTORY -- 5 RESPECTABILITY, REPUTATION AND RESTRAINT -- 6 ANXIETY, CONFLICT AND GOSSIP -- 7 IN CONCLUSION -- PART IV: SECRETS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies - the life of a country church, an annual procession by the churches in a Bristol suburb, a range of linked "spiritualist" beliefs - disclose the complex patterns and compulsion of ordinary lives, including both moral and historical dimensions: the distribution of reputation and conflict, and the continuities of place and identity. At the same time, the approach revises previous accounts of English social life by giving a nuanced description of the construction of local lives in interaction with their wider setting. It demonstrates the creation of local particularity under an outside gaze, showing how actors create and cope with the forces of "modernity." In addition to the original ethnographic descriptions, the book also contributes to the history and theory of the study of complex societies.
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CONTENTS -- MAPS AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS IN AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY LIFE -- PART I: TWO SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RELIGION IN MODERN BRITAIN -- PART II: THE COUNTRY CHURCH – THE CASE OF ST. MARY’S, COMBERTON -- PART III: THE KINGSWOOD WHIT WALK -- 1 INTRODUCTORY -- 2 THE WHIT WALK -- 3 FAMILY AND LOCALITY -- 4 ‘FIENDS TRANSFORMED’ A DISCUSSION OF LOCAL HISTORY -- 5 RESPECTABILITY, REPUTATION AND RESTRAINT -- 6 ANXIETY, CONFLICT AND GOSSIP -- 7 IN CONCLUSION -- PART IV: SECRETS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies - the life of a country church, an annual procession by the churches in a Bristol suburb, a range of linked "spiritualist" beliefs - disclose the complex patterns and compulsion of ordinary lives, including both moral and historical dimensions: the distribution of reputation and conflict, and the continuities of place and identity. At the same time, the approach revises previous accounts of English social life by giving a nuanced description of the construction of local lives in interaction with their wider setting. It demonstrates the creation of local particularity under an outside gaze, showing how actors create and cope with the forces of "modernity." In addition to the original ethnographic descriptions, the book also contributes to the history and theory of the study of complex societies.

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In English.

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