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Title |
Title of document |
20. Benign Religion as Normal Religion - Hijacked |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Suzanne Owen; Leeds Trinity University; United Kingdom |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
fundamentalism; sociology and religion; politics and religion; objectivity; insider/outsider problem; rhetoric; religion in the media; interpretation of Islam; public discourse on religion; value judgements |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
sociology of religion; politics of religion |
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Description |
Abstract |
This essay discusses a small controversy in the 2010s about the acceptance of Druidry into the Inter Faith Network UK. The example shows how government commissions and organisations are in the business of domesticating religion, leading groups like the Druids to conform to “liberal Protestant” ideas of religion. In the classroom, the discussion of NRMs, Pagans, and other marginal groups often contrasts them to the ‘classical’ world religions, making it hard to question underlying assumptions about how religion as a category is rendered. Instead of ‘religious literacy’ in the ‘great traditions’ built on a theological model, what is needed, according to the author, is ‘religion literacy’, or an understanding of the construction of ‘religion’ as a category and the interests served by these processes. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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15-Aug-2020 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/35437 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.35437 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Hijacked |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |