Open Definitions of Religion

Implicit Religion and Other Open Definitions

• Edward Bailey – Implicit Religion (Link)
  • Lombaard, Christo. (2016). God’s absence as characteristic of faith: Implicit religion and Edward Bailey (1935-2015). Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2(2), 257-272. (Link)
  • Journal of Implicit Religion
  • The Edward Bailey Centre for the Study of Implicit Religion (Link)
  • Lombaard, Christo. (2016). God’s absence as characteristic of faith: Implicit religion and Edward Bailey (1935-2015). Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2(2), 257-272. (Link)
• Roberto Cipriani – Diffused Religion (Link)
  • Diffused Religion: Beyond Secularization (Link)
• Grace Davie – Multiple Modernities (Link)
  • Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without Belonging (Link)
  • Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox (Link)
• Karel Dobbelaere – Meaning System (Link)
• Thomas Luckmann – Invisible Religion (Link)
  • “it is inkeeping with an elementary sense of the concept of religion to call the transcendence of biological nature by the human organism a religious phenomenon.…We may, therefore, regard the social processes that lead to the formation of Self as fundamentally religious” (p. 49)
  • Weigert, A. (1974). Whose Invisible Religion? Luckmann Revisited. Sociological Analysis, 35(3), 181-188. (Link)
• Elaine Oliphant (Link)
  • The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris (Link)
• Benson Saler – Family Resemblance Model
  • Saler, B. (2000). Conceptualizing religion: Immanent anthropologists, transcendent natives, and unbounded categories (Vol. 56). Berghahn Books. (Link)
    “religion is conceptualized as an affair of ‘more or less’ rather than a matter of ‘yes or no,’ and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.”

The Secular Sacred

• Kim Knott (Link)
  • Francis M and Knott K (2011) Return? It Never Left. Exploring the ‘Sacred’ as a Resource for Bridging the Gap between the Religious and the Secular. (Link)
  • Knott, K. (2013). The secular sacred: in-between or both/and? In A. Day, G. Vincett, & C. Cotter (Eds.), Social Identities between the Sacred and the Secular (pp. 145-160) (Link)