Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical Studies
The term in the title is intended to suggest that today’s increasingly diverse, alternative forms of belief related to religion are less easily captured by the terms religion and spirituality. In addition to explaining the difficulty of defining these two terms and discussing similar, previously pro...
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Society for Spirituality Studies
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| description | The term in the title is intended to suggest that today’s increasingly diverse, alternative forms of belief related to religion are less easily captured by the terms religion and spirituality. In addition to explaining the difficulty of defining these two terms and discussing similar, previously proposed, and useful concepts to overcome this difficulty, I present the process of creating of the term “religionesque” and its proposed use in empirical research. During my empirical fieldwork, I experienced the need for the missing term, which I believe should be introduced not only because of the analysis of certain alternative forms, but also because it nicely translates a term that already exists to some extent in the Hungarian language. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb723bce62a0407f95d438047e6840cf2023-11-11T15:04:33ZengSociety for Spirituality StudiesSpirituality Studies1339-95782023-11-01921827Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical StudiesSára Eszter Heidl0https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3888-8117University of ErfurtThe term in the title is intended to suggest that today’s increasingly diverse, alternative forms of belief related to religion are less easily captured by the terms religion and spirituality. In addition to explaining the difficulty of defining these two terms and discussing similar, previously proposed, and useful concepts to overcome this difficulty, I present the process of creating of the term “religionesque” and its proposed use in empirical research. During my empirical fieldwork, I experienced the need for the missing term, which I believe should be introduced not only because of the analysis of certain alternative forms, but also because it nicely translates a term that already exists to some extent in the Hungarian language.https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume9-issue2-fall2023/18/alternative religionsociologycultural anthropologyethnography |
| spellingShingle | Sára Eszter Heidl Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical Studies Spirituality Studies alternative religion sociology cultural anthropology ethnography |
| title | Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical Studies |
| title_full | Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical Studies |
| title_fullStr | Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical Studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical Studies |
| title_short | Religionesque: A Term for Dealing with Contemporary Alternative Religious Forms in Empirical Studies |
| title_sort | religionesque a term for dealing with contemporary alternative religious forms in empirical studies |
| topic | alternative religion sociology cultural anthropology ethnography |
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