Consumer Culture and the Sensory Remodelling of Religion

Gauthier, François; Grieser, Alexandra; Johnston, Jay

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“…According to Cornelio and colleagues (2021), "religion now takes many new forms that are less constrained by national governments and boundaries," and "it shifts from being a bounded sphere to something much more fluid" (4). Far from disappearing, religion remains a resource for social actors in their daily lives, even supporting new types of identity and lifestyle (Berzano 2019;Cornelio et al 2021;Gauthier 2018;Woodhead and Catto 2012), thereby appealing to the subjectivity of each individual (Heelas and Woodhead 2014). At this level, concerns for ultimate questions spread outside institutional religious boundaries into secular fields of social life, as shown by studies on spirituality (e.g., Palmisano and Pannofino 2020) and others encapsulating this transformation under new rubrics such as "implicit religion" (Bailey 2008), "everyday religion" (Ammerman 2006), "lived religion" (McGuire 2008), "tactical religion" (Woodhead 2013), and "quasi-religion" (Cottingham 2015).…”

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Expanded View of Ultimate Questions in Public Communication of Science: Qualitative Discourse Analysis of Genetics and Neuroscience

Nicoli

2024

Scientific Study of Religion

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This article argues that studying ultimate questions as “potential mediators” of religious worldviews increases sociological knowledge of religion outside institutional boundaries, as research on secularization indicates. Concurrently, other studies demonstrate that the public communication of science (PCS) influences public orientations toward religion. Integrating these contributions, I deploy a qualitative discourse analysis of 78 genetics and neuroscience PCS monographs to investigate whether and how they raise and discuss ultimate questions together with religious references. The analysis reveals two models for relating science and religion in PCS, conflict and integration, and indicates that the latter prevails. Within the integration model, I conceptualize the “expanded view” of ultimate questions in PCS and discuss in detail its main features, especially its nondualistic approach. Lastly, I discuss the possible social consequences of the expanded view and the contribution of my findings to the sociology of religion and the sociology of religion and science.

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Expanded View of Ultimate Questions in Public Communication of Science: Qualitative Discourse Analysis of Genetics and Neuroscience

Nicoli

2024

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…This is also what makes Gaga-and neo-spiritual practices in general-an object of specific interest to a materialist approach: The social and cultural value and function, the worldview impact of these neo-spiritual practices can only be grasped by focusing on the practice and on its material and embodied dimensions, on its specific "neo-spiritual aesthetics" or even the particular embodied "experience filters" that they produce (Aschenbrenner 2023;Aschenbrenner and Ostrowski 2022). Neo-Aesthetic Assemblages 6 spiritual phenomena are not only highly relational and global (Altglas 2014), but also highly performative and non-textual (Gauthier 2017).…”

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Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga

Aschenbrenner

2024

Material Religion

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“…For an overview of the history of the aesthetics of religion field, seeGrieser and Johnston 2017: 16-19. AlthoughGauthier's (2017) chapter was published in their edited volume, other chapters, including the editors' introduction(Grieser and Johnston 2017), do not take such a narrow view. See also Koch and Wilkens 2019; Johannsen, Kirsch, and Kreinath 2020.Downloaded from Brill.com10/18/2021 04:07:28AM via free access…”

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The Aesthetics and Emotions of Religious Belonging: Examples from the Buddhist World

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The articles in this special issue illuminate the importance of aesthetics, affect, and emotion in the formation of religious communities through examples from the Buddhist world. This introduction reads across the contributors’ findings from different regions (China, India, Japan, and Tibet) and eras (from the 17th to the 21st centuries) to highlight common themes. It discusses how Buddhist communities can take shape around feelings of togetherness, distance, and absence, how bonds are forged and broken through spectacular and quotidian aesthetic forms, and how aesthetic and emotional practices intersect with doctrinal interpretations, gender, ethnicity, and social distinction to shape the moral politics of religious belonging. We reflect on how this special issue complicates the idea of Buddhist belonging through its focus on oft-overlooked practices and practitioners. We also discuss the insights that our studies of Asian Buddhist communities offer to the broader study of religious belonging.

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Consumer Culture and the Sensory Remodelling of Religion

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Expanded View of Ultimate Questions in Public Communication of Science: Qualitative Discourse Analysis of Genetics and Neuroscience

Expanded View of Ultimate Questions in Public Communication of Science: Qualitative Discourse Analysis of Genetics and Neuroscience

Aesthetic Assemblages: Relational Aesthetics of the Israeli Movement Practice Gaga

The Aesthetics and Emotions of Religious Belonging: Examples from the Buddhist World

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