Vernacular Religion (eBook)

Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano

Deborah Dash MOORE (Herausgeber)

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2022
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1868-6 (ISBN)

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Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, given by the American Academy of ReligionA comprehensive collection of the pioneering work of Leonard Norman Primiano, one of the preeminent scholars in religious studiesIn 1995, Leonard Norman Primiano introduced the idea of vernacular religion. He coined this term to overcome the denigration implied in the concept of folk religion or popular religion, which was juxtaposed to elite religion. This two-tiered model suggested that religion existed somewhere in a pure form and that the folk version transforms it. Instead, Primiano urged scholars to adopt an inductive approach to the study of religion and to pay attention to experiential aspects of belief systems, ultimately redressing a heritage of scholarly misinterpretation.Here for the first time, Leonard Norman Primiano s pioneering works have been collected into one volume, providing a foundational look at one of the preeminent scholars of twentieth-century religious studies. Vernacular Religion makes visible the dimensions of vernacular religion in North America, exemplifying the richness of its ability to explain key facets of American society, including especially thorny issues around race and sexuality. The volume also demonstrates a method of abiding engagement, the creation of ongoing relationships with those who are studied, and how the relationship between scholars and the communities they study inform an ethics of critical commitment what Primiano calls an ethnography of collaboration and reciprocity. This posthumous collection, edited by Deborah Dash Moore, brings together key studies in vernacular religion that explore its expression among such varied groups as Catholics, LGBTQ Christians, and the followers of Father Divine. Vernacular Religion models empathetic ethnographic engagement that embraces American religion in all its rich diversity, illuminating Primiano s enduring legacy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2022
• Reihe/Serie: North American Religions
• Reihe/Serie: North American Religions
• Vorwort: Judith Weisenfeld
• Zusatzinfo: 16 color illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Altar • American Catholic piety • Canadian Outsider Art • Catholic collectables • Catholicism • Catholic material culture • Catholic publishing companies • Christianity • Circle Mission Church • Commodification of religion • congregational singing • devotionalism • dignity • Dignity community • Dignity (organization of LGBTQ Catholics) • Divine Lorraine Hotel • Divine Tracy Hotel • Donald H. De Lue • ethnography • Ex-voto • father divine • Folklore • French Canadian Catholicism • Gay and lesbian sexuality • Gay Catholics • Gloucester Massachusetts • Holy cards • Homosexual organizations • homosexuals • hooked rugs • Hymns • International Peace Mission Movement • Lesbian Catholics • LGBTQ Catholics • lived religion • macrobiotic diet • material culture • material religion • mother divine • Newfoundland • Peace Mission movement • Philadelphia architecture • Philadelphia Catholics • postmodern • Post-Vatican II Catholicism • Queer theology • race and religion • Relic • Religion and Gender • religion and race • Religious Folk Art • religious folklife • religious foodways • Religious utopianism • Religious Vernacular Architecture • religious vow • retail store • roman catholics • Sacramental • Sacramentality • Saint Joseph • Saint Jude Shop • sexual ethics • Shrine to Life • Sicilian • Sister Ann Ameen • Spirituality • Statues • Vatican II • Vernacular Catholicism • vernacular religion • Votive • VoW • Women’s Religious Crafts • Woodmont
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-1868-2 / 1479818682
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1868-6 / 9781479818686