| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 137 pages). |
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text file |
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Studies in social analysis ; volume 3
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Studies in social analysis ; volume 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life - such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith - outside the domain of religion 'proper.' Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world. |
| Contents |
Straying from the Straight Path -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. In What Does Failure Succeed? -- Chapter 2. â#x80;#x9C;Iâ#x80;#x99;m a Weak Servantâ#x80;#x9D; -- Chapter 3. Success, Risk, and Failure -- Chapter 4. Fitting God in -- Chapter 5. The Ethics of Not-Praying -- Chapter 6. Moral Failure, Everyday Religion, and Islamic Authorization -- Epilogue |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Failure (Psychology) -- Religious aspects.
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Failure (Psychology) -- Religious aspects. |
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Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
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Christianity and other religions. |
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Islam. |
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Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Relations. |
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies. |
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. |
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RELIGION -- Theology. |
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Christianity. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Interfaith relations. |
| Added Author |
Beekers, Daan, editor.
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Kloos, David, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Straying from the straight path. 1st [edition]. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785337130 (DLC) 2017037774 |
| ISBN |
9781785337147 (electronic book) |
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1785337149 (electronic book) |
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9781785337130 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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