Specifying the Inner Logic of Religion(s)

What is it about?

In this piece, we offer an approach for the study of religious people that honors what is “religious” about religion. We draw upon critical realist perspectives and recent work in institutional logics. We refer to selected findings from this special issue to demonstrate how this approach specifically applies to participants in this study. We also discuss what this approach could mean for social scientists, clinicians, clergy, and families.

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Why is it important?

The article and the theory we present avoids the various forms of reductionism common to other approaches, which see religion as an epiphenomenon of something else.