| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 137 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in social analysis ; volume 3 |
| Contents |
Straying from the Straight Path -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. In What Does Failure Succeed? -- Chapter 2. â#x80;#x9C;Iâ#x80;#x99;m a Weak Servantâ#x80;#x9D; -- Chapter 3. Success, Risk, and Failure -- Chapter 4. Fitting God in -- Chapter 5. The Ethics of Not-Praying -- Chapter 6. Moral Failure, Everyday Religion, and Islamic Authorization -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life - such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith - outside the domain of religion 'proper.' Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2017) |
| Subject |
Failure (Psychology) -- Religious aspects.
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Christianity and other religions -- Islam.
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Islam -- Relations -- Christianity.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Theology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Christianity
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Failure (Psychology) -- Religious aspects
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Interfaith relations
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Islam
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beekers, Daan, editor
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Kloos, David, editor
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| LC no. |
2017039750 |
| ISBN |
9781785337147 |
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1785337149 |
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