Mellor, PA and Shilling, C (2014) Re-conceptualising the religious habitus: Reflexivity and embodied subjectivity in global modernity. Culture and Religion, 15 (3). 275 - 297. ISSN 1475-5610
Abstract
The utility of the notion of the religious habitus rests on its capacity to illuminate how embodied dispositions emergent from routinised practices come to be socially and culturally significant. This has been called into question, however, by global changes that undermine the societal stability and personal habits on which it is often understood to rely, stimulating instead reflexive engagements with change. After assessing conventional conceptions of the religious habitus vulnerable to such criticism, we utilise the writings of Latour in developing a new understanding of the term. Re-conceptualising the religious habitus as something reflexively re-made or instaured, through the cultivation of a subjectivity that locates human action, feeling and thought at the embodied intersection of worldly and other-worldly realities, we illustrate the value of this approach with reference to contemporary Pentecostalism and Islam.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014, Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Culture and Religion on 5 Aug 2014 available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2014.942328. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Habitus; Reflexivity; Embodiment; Pentecostalism; Islamic piety |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2015 15:09 |
Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2016 16:56 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2014.942328 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14755610.2014.942328 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87066 |