Straying from the Straight Path
How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
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Word Count
34,250 words, Guess
Page Count
137 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781785337130
- ISBN-101785337130
- Library of Congress Control Number2017037774
- OCLC Control Number986237314
- Better World Books9781785337130
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL40044061M
Classifications
- LCCBL629.5.F33 S77 2017
- LCCBL629.5.F33 S77 2018
Description
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.
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