Religion in English everyday life : an ethnographic approach / by Timothy Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Timothy, 1952- author.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology Religion in English everyday life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology--England.

Religion and sociology.

England--Religious life and customs.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 256 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies - the life of a country church, an annual procession by the churches in a Bristol suburb, a range of linked "spiritualist" beliefs - disclose the complex patterns and compulsion of ordinary lives, including both moral and historical dimensions: the distribution of reputation and conflict, and the continuities of place and identity. At the same time, the approach revises previous accounts of English social life by giving a nuanced description of the construction of local lives in interaction with their wider setting. It demonstrates the creation of local particularity under an outside gaze, showing how actors create and cope with the forces of "modernity." In addition to the original ethnographic descriptions, the book also contributes to the history and theory of the study of complex societies.

Contents:

CONTENTS

MAPS AND TABLES

PREFACE

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION: RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS IN AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF EVERYDAY LIFE

PART I: TWO SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO RELIGION IN MODERN BRITAIN

PART II: THE COUNTRY CHURCH – THE CASE OF ST. MARY’S, COMBERTON

PART III: THE KINGSWOOD WHIT WALK

1 INTRODUCTORY

2 THE WHIT WALK

3 FAMILY AND LOCALITY

4 ‘FIENDS TRANSFORMED’ A DISCUSSION OF LOCAL HISTORY

5 RESPECTABILITY, REPUTATION AND RESTRAINT

6 ANXIETY, CONFLICT AND GOSSIP

7 IN CONCLUSION

PART IV: SECRETS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-249) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789205732

1789205735

9781571817693

1571817697

9781571817266

1571817263

OCLC:

1101792343