Document Type

Contribution to Book

Language

eng

Publication Date

12-6-2012

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Source Publication

Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion

Source ISSN

9780199938629

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199938629.003.0009

Abstract

Projects known as dialogue or reconciliation build on the common ground between members of historically adversarial groups to help overcome vicious cycles of retaliation. This chapter compares observations from two studies of religious and religio-ethnic communities. The more recent is a qualitative study of American Jews' understandings and experiences of anti-Semitism and how it relates to politics, particularly around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It compares some of the findings from this study with findings that emerged in earlier ethnographic research on debates about homosexuality within the United Methodist Church. The chapter explores the intersection of politics with the self, which sociological theories of the self have generally ignored.

Comments

Published version. "Difficult Dialogues: The Technologies and Limits of Reconciliation," in Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion. Eds. Courtney Bender; et al. New York : Oxford University Press, 2012: 179-199. Permalink. © 2012 Oxford University Press. Used with permission.

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