Lived Religion, Conversion and Recovery
Negotiating of Self, the Social, and the Sacred
Editors: Sremac, Srdjan, Jindra, Ines W. (Eds.)
- Addresses the gaps in existing literature on the relationship between the self and the social in recovery, from a lived religion perspective
- Includes contributions from a vast range of authors in various academic fields such as sociology, anthropology, religious studies and psychology
- Provides a framework for understanding the everyday, embodied, and performative aspects of conversion, recovery, and religion
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- About this book
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The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the complex interactions that occur between the person, the sacred, and various recovery situations, which can include prisons, substance abuse recovery settings and domestic violence shelters.
With an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conversion, the collection provides an opportunity for a better understanding of lived religion, guilt, shame, hope, forgiveness, narrative identity reconstruction, religious coping, religious conversion and spiritual transformation. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of lived religion, religious conversion, recovery, homelessness, and substance dependence.
- About the authors
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Srdjan Sremac is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Religion and Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Co-Director of the Amsterdam Center for the Study of Lived Religion, The Netherlands.
Ines W. Jindra is Associate Professor of Social Work in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Gordon College, and also Visiting Scholar at the Boisi Center at Boston College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Lived Religion, Conversion and Recovery
- Book Subtitle
- Negotiating of Self, the Social, and the Sacred
- Editors
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- Srdjan Sremac
- Ines W. Jindra
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-40682-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-40682-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-40681-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
