Straying from the Straight Path : : How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion / / ed. by Daan Beekers, David Kloos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Beekers, Daan,; Green, Leanne Williams,; Kamp, Linda van de,; Kloos, David,; Koning, Martijn de,; Port, Mattijs van de,; Robbins, Joel,; Sunier, Thijl,
• HerausgeberIn: Beekers, Daan,; Kloos, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Social Analysis ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (146 p.)

If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith – outside the domain of religion ‘proper.’ Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part and parcel of religious practice and experience. Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the largely separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, this volume gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Productive Potential of Moral Failure in Lived Islam and Christianity -- Chapter 1 In What Does Failure Succ eed? Conceptions of Sin and the Role of Human Moral Vulnerability in Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity -- Chapter 2 “I’m a Weak Servant” The Question of Sincerity and the Cultivation of Weakness in the Lives of Dutch Salafi Muslims -- Chapter 3 Success , Risk, and Failure: The Brazilian Prosperity Gospel in Mozambique -- Chapter 4 Fitting God in: Secular Routines, Prayer, and Deceleration among Young Dutch Muslims and Christians -- Chapter 5 The Ethics of Not-Praying: Religious Negligence, Life Phase, and Social Status in Aceh, Indonesia -- Chapter 6 Moral Failure, Everyday Religion, and Islamic Authorization -- Epilogue: Religion, Lived Religion, and the “Authenticity” of Failure -- Index