From “Everyday Life” to “Everyday Religion”: “Lived Religion” Notion

Manuscript ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Elena Germanovna Trubina ◽  
◽  
Saeed Saeed ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Everyday Religion

Loud internal life in a silent community: Towards lived aspects of religious life in a cloistered, female monastery

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-427
Author(s):  
Marcin Jewdokimow ◽  
Stefania Palmisano ◽  
Dominika Budzanowska-Weglenda
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Radical Form

The aim of this article is to present the results of a sociological study on everyday life within a female cloistered monastery. This is a radical form of religious life, highly routinised, distanced from the outside world and conducted in community yet in almost total silence. By elaborating upon the concepts of everyday and lived religion, the scope of our examination complements dominant sociological approaches to the study of this religious phenomenon. By addressing the following research question: ‘Do cloistered monasteries de-individualise and totally regulate the life of nuns?’, we discuss selected aspects of everyday life in the institution and its contemporary transformations related to, among other things, new communication technologies and new generations of nuns. We show that in this highly institutionalised place nuns remain reflexive individuals.

scholarly journals Mestring og balanse. Trekk ved ung hindureligiøsitet

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Hildegunn Valen Kleive
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Western Norway ◽  
Contemporary Religion ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
North Western ◽  
Everyday Religion

 This article focuses on understandings of the divine and how everyday life experiences motivate for religious practices among young Tamil Hindus in North Western Norway. Their religiosity is discussed in relation to Hindu traditions as well as to contemporary religion. The findings suggest that coping and balancing strategies generate a young Tamil Hindu religiosity with features resembling several traditions. The analysis is based on field notes from observations, questionnaire responses and interviews. The participants are between 16 and 25 years of age.Keywords: Hinduism, Tamil, youth, rural Norway, concept of God, everyday religion Denne artikkelen handler om hvordan unge tamilhinduer på Nordvestlandet i Norge oppfatter det guddommelige og hvordan hverdagslige erfaringer motiverer for religiøs praksis. Deres religiøsitet blir drøftet i lys av hindutradisjoner samt vestlig samtidsreligiøsitet. Mestring og balanse synes å være viktige anliggender for ungdommene, og det genererer en religiøsitet som gjenspeiler trekk fra flere tradisjoner. Analysen er basert på feltnotater fra observasjoner, spørreskjemaresponser og intervjuer. Deltakerne i undersøkelsen er mellom 16 og 25 år.Nøkkelord: Hinduisme, tamil, ungdom, distrikts-Norge, gudsoppfatning, hverdagsreligion

Sacristy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Pryce
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Rhythm ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Ways Of Being

A contribution to the field of lived religion, Chapter 6 critiques the idea of ritual as a reified category separate from ordinary life. Contemplative Christians sought to lead lives of “ceaseless prayer” by learning to “keep attention” in their everyday activities with contemplative awareness techniques, including keeping a monastic daily rhythm and practicing “conscious work.” The chapter illustrates their efforts with an ethnographic example describing how Wisdom School participants treated a flu epidemic as an opportunity to engage contemplative ways of being. It also includes reports of individual practitioners’ “intentional living” in the privacy of their homes. Summarizing the significance of the ritualization of everyday life in this community, one woman’s charismatic description of the contemplative aspects of kitchen work leads to a theoretical analysis of how ordinary tasks can prompt “transformation” through practitioners’ combination of attention, intention, unknowing, and ritualized action.

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