ISBN:
9781138778108
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (228 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Seeing Religion : Toward a Visual Sociology of Religion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seeing religion
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Religionssoziologie
Abstract:
The potential of visual research methods in the sociology of religion is vast, but largely untapped. This comes as a surprise, however, given the visual, symbolic, and material nature of religion and spirituality. Evidence of religious faith and practice is materially present in everything from clothing and jewelry to artifacts found in people's homes and workplaces. Not only is religion's symbolic and material presence palpable throughout society, it also informs attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of countless people worldwide. Words-and-numbers approaches to social research, however, sometime
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; List of images ; List of maps ; List of tables ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of contributors; 1 Visual sociology and the sociology of religion ; 2 Exploring an urban ecology visually: spatial approaches to studying social contrasts along Germantown Avenue; 3 Mapping congregational responses to re-urbanization and gentrification ; 4 Seeing Islam in global cities: a spatial semiotic analysis; 5 Religious symbols on rearview mirrors: displays of faith or hopes for safe travel?
Description / Table of Contents:
6 From backstage to front: the role of the vestry in managing clergy self-presentation7 Visual experiencing and communicating: visual sociology as a truly comprehensive experience; 8 Videographic analysis of religious and secular rituals: examples from a study on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day; 9 Visual ethics, feminist ethnography, and the study of Holocaust memorialization; 10 Reconfiguring stained glass: religion, domestic violence, and visual engagement; 11 Why study religion visually? ; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
