Straying from the straight path : how senses of failure invigorate lived religion / edited by Daan Beekers and David Kloos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beekers, Daan, editor.

Kloos, David, editor.

Series:

Studies in social analysis ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Failure (Psychology)--Religious aspects.

Failure (Psychology).

Christianity and other religions--Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam--Relations--Christianity.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Productive Potential of Moral Failure in Lived Islam and Christianity

Chapter 1 In What Does Failure Succ eed? Conceptions of Sin and the Role of Human Moral Vulnerability in Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity

Chapter 2 “I’m a Weak Servant” The Question of Sincerity and the Cultivation of Weakness in the Lives of Dutch Salafi Muslims

Chapter 3 Success , Risk, and Failure: The Brazilian Prosperity Gospel in Mozambique

Chapter 4 Fitting God in: Secular Routines, Prayer, and Deceleration among Young Dutch Muslims and Christians

Chapter 5 The Ethics of Not-Praying: Religious Negligence, Life Phase, and Social Status in Aceh, Indonesia

Chapter 6 Moral Failure, Everyday Religion, and Islamic Authorization

Epilogue: Religion, Lived Religion, and the “Authenticity” of Failure

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785337147

1785337149

OCLC:

1048358725