Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

PART FOUR Religion and Social Identity ...

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CHAPTER SIXTEEN Religious Identities and Religious Institutions Nancy T. Ammerman For modern social theory, as well as for many ...

208 Nancy T. Ammerman maintain or recreate immigrant religious identities.^4 Circumstances and demands in a new culture inevitab ...

Religious Identities and Religious Institutions 209 of testing faith claims against their everyday experience to see what makes ...

210 Nancy T. Ammerman to be, whether our actions fit the roles we have assumed. And every situation carries a tension between as ...

Religious Identities and Religious Institutions 211 fluidity, occasional gatherings and dispersal” (p. 76). Faced with the fluid ...

212 Nancy T. Ammerman do we understand the human person to be an agent in the creation of her or his own persona? Are groups fre ...

Religious Identities and Religious Institutions 213 IDENTITY AS A NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION What is already implied in these discus ...

214 Nancy T. Ammerman depend as much on the internal themes and plots of this autobiographical narrative as on the situation and ...

Religious Identities and Religious Institutions 215 including the specific institutional context of rules and practices in which ...

216 Nancy T. Ammerman are always present, and no institutional field is defined utterly in its own terms. All situations are cha ...

Religious Identities and Religious Institutions 217 interaction as our basis and recognize the necessary intersectionality of al ...

218 Nancy T. Ammerman experience beyond words and ideas that is inherently communal and identity defining. Similarly, rhythmic c ...

Religious Identities and Religious Institutions 219 not maintaining a lifelong religious tradition are less likely to describe t ...

220 Nancy T. Ammerman Weber’s (1925/1978) terms, when does “charismatic” authority trump “rational-legal” or “traditional” rules ...

Religious Identities and Religious Institutions 221 The interactions of those who thereby recognize each other as coparticipants ...

222 Nancy T. Ammerman but it is often prohibited from escaping their own private musings. As with any other identity, we cannot ...

Religious Identities and Religious Institutions 223 permeability of boundaries and the intersectionality of identity require mor ...

224 Nancy T. Ammerman that are themselves the product of ongoing interaction, both among the diverse hu- man participants in the ...