Contemporary Western Ethnography and the Definition of Religion

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"...draws on several interesting ethnographic studies of the religious' lives of ordinary people to illustrate his claim that the elementary form of the religious life is situational, mundane, and concerned with helping people cope with the ordinary problems of day-to-day living." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, November 2009
This is a thought-provoking book for all who are interested in the study of religion and for all whose concern is with expressions of religion in the UK - and elsewhere - today. Stringer's work is an encouragement to read other titles in this Continuum Advances in Religious Studies series... It is certainly an encouragement to be open-minded and inclusive in our attentiveness to religious behaviour in our society.' -- British Journal of Religious Education

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Martin D. Stringer is Professor of Liturgical and Congregational Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.