Listening, Religion, and Democracy in Contemporary Boston

Listening, Religion, and Democracy in Contemporary Boston
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781498576093
ISBN-13 : 1498576095
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Download or read book Listening, Religion, and Democracy in Contemporary Boston written by William W. Young and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of religious practices of listening in the Boston area. Through ethnographic study of a variety of religious communities, with an extensive focus on Quaker listening, it argues that religious practice shapes our habits of listening by creating a plurality of regimes of listening across Boston’s landscape. These practices, moreover, cultivate specific dispositions, as well as distinct patterns of religious and democratic virtues. Through these dispositions and virtues, religious listening facilitates a diverse range of forms of democratic engagement, and varied contributions to the pursuit of social justice. William Young provides an innovative interpretation of these religious practices. It argues that insofar as religious listening helps practitioners to extend and amplify their listening, and makes them more responsive to their communities, it creates a social mode of embodied receptivity and agency. Through both their listening and their actions, these groups express their conceptions of divinity, embodying divine attributes and activity within the sociopolitical realm—serving as God’s ears within the world. It is by interpreting their practices as creating modes of social discipline, reception, and agency that the book explicates the full significance of religious listening, in its adaptations and extensions of our aural capacities, and their implications for sociopolitical life.


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