Interpreting ReligionErin F. JohnstonLabel: Bristol University PressDescription: This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production experiences contexts and meanings of religion. Scholars from the US South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using ethnographic comparative historical psychosocial and critical theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes in the study of religion – from identity discourse and power to ritual emotion and embodiment. Authors examine dynamic intersections of race gender history and the present within the religious traditions of Christianity Islam Judaism and Buddhism as well as among the non-religious.Cutting boldly across religious traditions and paradigms the book investigates areas of harmony and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a richer understanding of the meanings of religion.
