From Converts to Itinerants: ReligiousButinageas Dynamic Identity
| Autor: | Jeanne Rey, Yvan Droz, Edio Soares, Yonatan N. Gez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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060303 religions & theology
Archeology 060101 anthropology Anthropology Metaphor media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Religious philosophy Identity (social science) 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Religious identity Epistemology Allusion 0601 history and archaeology Sociology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 58:141-159 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/690836 |
| Popis: | Anthropologists and sociologists studying religious practices have to navigate through terminological preconceptions that assume religious identity to be essentially stable, only interrupted at times by dramatic instances of conversion. In this article, we introduce a metaphor as a way of thinking about religious phenomena outside of an exclusivist theological model and as self-fashioned, flexible, mobile, and composite practice. Using an allusion to the behavior of pollinizing insects, we speak of religious butinage as a way of stimulating the discussion regarding such dynamic religious practice, proposing that religious mobility is perhaps more common than some are inclined to think. By presenting the case in favor of this metaphor, we invite a fresh perspective on religious practices and religious identity. |
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