Overview
- Analyses what people actually do, think, and feel in their everyday societal contexts to develop a more nuanced insight into the relationship between religion and trauma
- Adopts the general framework of everyday lived religion as the ethnographic and hermeneutical background for understanding the performative dimensions of ‘religion-in-action’
- Critically correlates the experience of trauma with lived religious realities, symbols, texts, religious stories, contemplative practices and transcendental material/aesthetic meaning-making
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges (PSLRSC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on the power of the ‘ordinary’, ‘everydayness’ and ‘embodiment’ as keys to exploring the intersection of trauma and the everyday reality of religion. It critically investigates traumatic experiences from a perspective of lived religion, and therefore, examines how trauma is articulated and lived in the foreground of people’s concrete, material actualities.
Trauma and Lived Religion seeks to demonstrate the vital relevance between the concept of lived religion and the study of trauma, and the reciprocal relationship between the two. A central question in this volume therefore focuses on the key dimensions of body, language, memory, testimony, and ritual. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of sociology, psychology, and religious studies with a focus on lived religion and trauma studies, across various religions and cultural contexts.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
R. Ruard Ganzevoort is Dean and Professor of practical theology at Vrije Universiteit and founding co-director of its Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion
Srdjan Sremac lectures at the Faculty of Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-director of its Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Lived Religion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trauma and Lived Religion
Book Subtitle: Transcending the Ordinary
Editors: R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Srdjan Sremac
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91872-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91871-6Published: 25 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06317-7Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91872-3Published: 11 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-4390
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4404
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 258
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Religion and Psychology, Violence and Crime