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The proposal is for a modular text in the sociology of religion. The field shades into Theology/Religious Studies but the core market is sociology of religion.
‘Lived’ Religion in Everyday Life
‘Lived’ Religion in Everyday Life
‘Lived’ religion in everyday life
After Reading this Chapter you Will:
- understand the ways in which individuals are religious;
- be familiar with sociological explanations of individual religiosity;
- understand the relationship between religion and gender; and
- have insight into how religiosity changes across the lifecourse.
I interviewed 18-year-old ‘Kanisha’ (not her real name) for one of my research proj ects (see Singleton 2012). Kanisha is a science student at a large university. She was born and raised in India and migrated to Australia with her family when she was 11 years old. Kanisha is an Irani, an Indian ethno-religious minority. Iranis are tradi tionally followers of the Zoroastrian religion, which was founded in ancient Persia in the sixth ...
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