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Katarina Johansson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Oförklarliga fenomen och religiositet. Om hur tro på oförklarliga fenomen kan belysa religiositet bland unga människor i ett sekulariserat senmodernt samhälle.
    2020
    Co-Authors: Katarina Johansson
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    This is a study about unexplainable phenomena and religiosity in a secular late modern society, more exactly among youth in the southwest of Sweden. The study problematizes the difficulty of measuring religiosity, specifically with quantitative methods, and tries out new questions and formulation of questions regarding beliefs in unexplainable phenomena. The purpose is to find more nuanced and inclusive ways of measuring religiosity using a non-Institutional language applicable to religiosity also outside Institutional Religion. A web-based survey was sent to students of the third year at upper secondary school, most of them studying humanities or social science programs. Totally 91 students answered the survey in four places in the southwest of Sweden. Theories used in the study when analyzing the material are at a macro level and include Steve Bruce’s secularization theory, Paul Heelas’ subjectivizing theory, Peter Berger’s and Thomas Luckmann’s socialization theories as well as Ronald Inglehart’s theory of a silent revolution. Luckmann’s theory of invisible Religion have also been useful as well as Meredith McGuire’s theory of meaningsystems at a micro level. The deduction of this study is that significant religiosity in forms outside Institutional Religion are found using unconventional questions and formulation of questions of unexplainable phenomena in a non-Institutional language appropriate to contemporary society in Sweden. I suggest that this could be a better way to capture Religion, specifically regarding youth in Sweden of today, since it also includes unofficial Religion and spirituality.

  • Meningsskapande i samtiden - en fokusgruppundersökning om vad det innebär att tro på oförklarliga fenomen i ett sekulariserat senmodernt samhälle som Sverige
    2020
    Co-Authors: Katarina Johansson
    Abstract:

    The aim of this thesis is to survey and map out what it means to believe in unexplainable phenomena, that is phenomena not scientifically explained, in a secular late modern society. The study is explorative and used methods are five focus group interviews supplemented with a questionnaire, performed in southwest of Sweden. Used theories in the inductive analysis to explain belief in unexplainable phenomena at a macro level are the secularization theory, subjectivizing theories, theory of late modern society, socialization theories and the theory of invisible Religion, and at a micro level theories of meaning making and theories of cognitive science of Religion. The deduction of the study is that belief in unexplainable phenomena is meaning making in several ways in a contemporary late modern society and a possible resource of sense of coherence (SOC), resilience and wellbeing, and that there is no disagreement between belief in unexplainable phenomena and science, but to Institutional Religion, interpretative prerogative and religious authorities of different kinds. Narratives of experiences of unexplainable phenomena are not only meaning making, but the main approach to explain and legitimize the belief in unexplainable phenomena. However most of the informants have some fear of being regarded as dopey or half-witted, hence it’s common not openly talk about the belief, but to find and choose a secure constructive and sharing context off- or online. In summary this study shows that new approaches and methods are needed to be able to better capture contemporary none Institutional Religion, religiosity and spirituality as a cultural phenomena, not at least to include belief in unexplainable phenomena in studies of contemporary religiosity. (Less)

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Margaret Eleanor Kidger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Colliers and Christianity : Religion in the coalmining communities of South Wales and the East Midlands c1860 to 1930s with a particular focus on the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales and the Hucknall and Shirebrook areas in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshi
    2012
    Co-Authors: Margaret Eleanor Kidger
    Abstract:

    Many studies that have examined the issues of ‘secularisation’ and ‘Religion and the working class’ have been based on large cities. This study, after first reviewing the debate on these issues, looks at Institutional Religion in coalmining communities in the East Midlands and South Wales from 1860 to the 1930s. It focuses particularly, though not exclusively, on Hucknall and Shirebrook in the East Midlands and the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales. The difficulties faced by the churches in providing for the needs of the rapidly growing mining communities are then outlined; the progress made by Nonconformity, Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism is examined and the contribution that the churches made to the lives of both church members and communities is assessed. The study also looks at the contribution of the miners themselves to Institutional Religion. The final chapter focuses on the inter-war years and assesses possible reasons for the widespread decline in religious commitment during that period and in so doing examines the extent to which the churches themselves may have inadvertently contributed to their own decline. Overall this study argues that Institutional Religion made a significant contribution, at least until 1914, to the life of the mining communities. It was mainly in the interwar period that, for a variety of reasons, secularisation in these working class communities increased.

Marvin B. Sussman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Homosexuality and Family Relations
    1990
    Co-Authors: Frederick W. Bozett, Marvin B. Sussman
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    Contents Homosexuality and Family Relationships: Views and Research Issues Hidden Branches and Growing Pains: Homosexuality and the Family Tree Married Homosexual Men: Prevalence and Background Guess Who's Coming to Dinner This Time? A Study of Gay Intimate Relationships and the Support for Those Relationships Adoption and Foster Parenting for Lesbians and Gay Men: Creating New Traditions in Family The Married Lesbian Lesbians and the Choice to Parent Parenting by Gay Fathers Children of Gay and Lesbian Parents Gay and Lesbian Adolescents Ethnic Minority Families and Minority Gays and Lesbians Older Lesbian and Gay People: Responding to Homophobia Institutional Religion and Gay/Lesbian Oppression AIDS: Impact on the Gay Man's Homosexual and Heterosexual Families The Shaman: The Gay and Lesbian Ancestor of Humankind Homosexuality and Family Relations: Glossary of Terms

Jane Shaw - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Varieties of mystical experience in William James and other moderns
    History of European Ideas, 2017
    Co-Authors: Jane Shaw
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    ABSTRACTIn 1902, William James gave his Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, entitled The Varieties of Religious Experience, in which he claimed that such experience was a part of human nature, and was necessarily the foundation of all Institutional Religion. His work has often been singled out as leading to an increasingly private and individualistic understanding of Religion, but this paper places his work in a broader movement of the early twentieth century that heralded a revival of interest in religious experience and, especially, mysticism. It explores the work of two English writers, W.R. Inge and Evelyn Underhill, in relation to James, and argues that the revival of interest in mysticism was a significant response to the intellectual challenges to faith in modernity.