The Regime of Religious Pluralism: Uncovering the Cultural Dimensions of American Religious Belonging
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Bradly Nabors
نام ساير پديدآوران
Lichterman, Paul
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Southern California
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2015
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
111
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor;
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
University of Southern California
امتياز متن
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation defines and advances a theory of religious pluralism as a cultural structure that: 1) delineates norms of religious propriety while at the same time 2) affording opportunities for cultural belonging amongst those cast as suspect by those very same norms. I argue that religious conventionality in the United States is circumscribed by four prominent and discrete cultural trends in religion: religious individualism, religious voluntarism, religious cognitivism, and personalized notions of God. I then show how those who exist around the margins of the religious mainstream are able to access elements of shared culture that resonate with these structural dimensions in order to articulate a sense of belonging in the U.S. The ability of such religiously unconventional groups to do so poses a challenge to current theories of religious pluralism that posit a dominant Protestant hegemony acting in a binary fashion to create insiders and outsiders. This dissertation argues that the boundary between the religious normative "center" and its outskirts is better conceptualized as boundaries with cultural porosity, with the possibilities for traverse configured differently for each religiously unconventional group.