9. Seeking as a Late Modern Tradition: Three Vernacular Biographies
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | 9. Seeking as a Late Modern Tradition: Three Vernacular Biographies - Vernacular Knowledge |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Steven Sutcliffe; University of Edinburgh; United Kingdom |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies; Ethnography |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | New Age; epistemological relativism; world religions; elementary forms; vernacular knowledge |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | vernacular religion |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | I argue that the role of the ‘seeker’ and practices of ‘seeking’, especially (but not only) in the field of New Spiritualities, constitute a late modern tradition of practice. Rather than a personal and idiosyncratic form of behaviour with minimal salience, seeking is better understood as a collective mode of thought and practice by means of which receptive subjects adapt to the radical pluralisation of late modern religious authorities. To support my case I discuss three vernacular biographies from different regions of the UK as post-1945 case studies. Drawing on a theoretical framework based in the work of Vladimir Propp and Walter Burkert, I argue that, despite substantive differences, each biography shares a common structure of a search for symbolic goods in the face of multiple competing authorities. I conclude that seeking is a late modern vernacular tradition with historical and anthropological roots. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 24-Oct-2022 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/29220 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.29220 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Vernacular Knowledge |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
world, contemporary |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |