This chapter deals with the dominant ways in which Muslims and Islam are depicted and
represented in a Western imaginary. It offers a literature review that situates the empirical …

This is an interpretative, critical, and selective review of scholarly contributions that explore
Latin America's religious landscape. We present data, both qualitative and quantitative, from …

The nature of the human person has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. We
desire to understand ourselves and our place in the world, and at times we also look at …

The introduction to this special issue describes the emergence of the lived religion approach
in relation to other approaches within the study of religion and sociology of religion as a way …

In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they
cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head …

This clear and engaging guide introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how
to apply an anthropological approach to the study of religion in the contemporary world …

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory.
The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people …

Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology,
Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion …

Scholars over the past several decades have noted the resilience of religion in the United
States (Chaves 2011; Gorski and Altınordu 2008; Hadden 1987: 601–02; Presser and …

Presenting qualitative and quantitative findings on the lived experiences of around seven
hundred young adults from Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and mixed-faith …