Sociology of Religion: Overview and Analysis of Contemporary Religion

self-and-identity

• just because they can be counted does not mean they exist — research revealed a multiplicity of belonging, people of different religions borrowing and experiencing each other's resources

  SROA-RC-170

• 390,127 UK people added 'Jedi' as their religion — a decade later the figures had declined, raising questions about what counted as religious identity at all

  SROA-RC-058

• a white foreign man from England approaching a community in Sudan would likely be greeted by men — the implications of that setting are ethical and epistemological

  SROA-RC-028

belonging

• sociologists cannot afford to dismiss a form of lived religion just because it does not measure up to orthodox theological standards

  SROA-RC-056

obedience-and-authority

• the UK and Iran share the distinction of being the only two countries with permanent places for religious leaders in their houses of government

  SROA-RC-072

• scholars in the 1970s thought religions were anachronistic and declining — then came hard-right religious conservatism and crises fuelled by religious ideology

  SROA-RC-074