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Religious Credibility under Fire

Determinants of Religious Legitimacy in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Quantitative and qualitative praxeology

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
  2. Introduction

    • Leif-Hagen Seibert
    Pages 1-8
  3. Religion, war and peace

    • Leif-Hagen Seibert
    Pages 9-104
  4. Problems and questions

    • Leif-Hagen Seibert
    Pages 105-120
  5. Theory and methods

    • Leif-Hagen Seibert
    Pages 121-199
  6. Religious credibility in BiH

    • Leif-Hagen Seibert
    Pages 201-428
  7. Summary and conclusion

    • Leif-Hagen Seibert
    Pages 429-440
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 441-502

About this book

Leif-Hagen Seibert carries out a three-step praxeological analysis of empirical data from field studies in the research project “The ethos of religious peace builders” that allows for novel assessments of societal conjuncture (field theory), subjective meaning (habitus analysis), and the mutual ‘rules of engagement’ of religious practice (the religious nomos). Over the course of this three-step argument, the sociological concept of religious credibility – i.e. the determinants of religious legitimacy – gains more and more contours and facilitates the reevaluation of risks and chances in a peace process where religion is a vector for both peace and division.

Authors and Affiliations

  • CIRRuS, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Leif-Hagen Seibert

About the author

Dr. Leif-Hagen Seibert is a researcher at the Center for the interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CIRRuS), Bielefeld. The core areas of his work are religion and conflict, critique of religion and ideology, sociological theories and methods.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Religious Credibility under Fire

  • Book Subtitle: Determinants of Religious Legitimacy in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Authors: Leif-Hagen Seibert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21033-5

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-21032-8Published: 09 February 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-21033-5Published: 05 February 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 502

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology of Religion, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Research Methodology

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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