The Archipelago of Faith: Religious Individualism and Faith Community in America Today
Abstract
Through an interpretation of ethnographies of four very different religious communities, the author argues that there is a deep cultural commonality underlying the diversity of religious expression among the American middle classes. This commonality can be described in terms of religious individualism. But unlike previous accounts of religious individualism, this article emphasizes the ways in which it combines both “seeking” and “dwelling” and leads to both “progressive” and “orthodox” forms of religious expression.
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The author observed in fieldwork in an orthodox Jewish synagogue that some congregants said they did not believe in God even while taking on demanding moral and spiritual discipline for the sake of maintaining their traditions and community.
“I observed the same phenomenon in my fieldwork in an orthodox Jewish synagogue (Madsen 2009). Even while being willing to take on extremely demanding forms of moral and spiritual discipline for the sake of maintaining their traditions and their community, some congregants said that they did not believe in God.”
From Secular Belief, Religious Belonging in China (2014) · cites this paper as Madsen 2009
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Cheadle, J. E., & Schwadel, P. (2012) · Social Science Research · doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.03.014 · Cited by 149 · see citing works
Secular Belief, Religious Belonging in China
Madsen, R. (2014) · Review of Religion and Chinese Society · doi:10.1163/22143955-04102003 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Madsen, R.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Madsen, Richard
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2009-03
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1263-1301
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- OpenAlex
- W1929279352
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 11.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Keywords
- religious individualism, religious communities, religious diversity, American middle class, religious expression, orthodoxy, religious ethnography, American religion
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