عنوان

Religion-related discourse :

شماره

TLets810308

عنوان اصلي

Religion-related discourse :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Cotter, Christopher

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a critical approach to non-religion in Edinburgh's Southside

نام ساير پديدآوران

Knott, Kim

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Lancaster University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

This thesis has been undertaken to critically engage with, reframe and rehabilitate a burgeoning body of contemporary research on 'non-religion' within the critical academic study of 'religion', and to explore the benefits of such a reframing for empirical research. I begin by critically introducing research on 'non-religion' and identifying a number of key problems which directly relate to ever-raging debates surrounding the definition of 'religion'. I then justify my chosen approach-discourse analysis-and provide a discursive re-reading of studies of 'non-religion', arguing that it should be approached as part of a 'religion-related field', before outlining the theoretical questions addressed in the thesis. I argue for locality as a productive means through which to examine religion-related discourse, justify the selection of Edinburgh's Southside as my field site, and introduce my data sources and the specifics of my analytical approach. Chapter 4 presents my analysis of the Peoples of Edinburgh Project (PEP), conducted in the mid-1990s, while Chapters 5-7 present the analysis of my own empirical work in the contemporary Southside, and place this into conversation with the PEP. In these chapters I demonstrate that the religion-related field is entangled with a variety of powerful discourses that are inflected by the Southside's local and national particularity. I also demonstrate the importance of looking beyond the supposed 'religious' or 'non-religious' character of discourses, in order to assess the underlying structures and entanglements, and to avoid unjustifiably reifying the religion-related field. In some cases the 'non-religious' is implicit in the subject position of actors utilizing religion-related discourse. It also appears that being positioned as 'religious' or 'non-religious' means more in certain circumstances than in others. Furthermore, I reflect on the notion of religious 'indifference', arguing that, in some instances, the performance of indifference is a tactic for coping with contextually meaningful difference.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Lancaster University

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Knott, Kim

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Lancaster University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y