A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Re-contextualizing the Framework of Scene for the Empirical Study of Post-institutional Religious Spaces in Practice
Authors: Moberg M, Ramstedt T
Publisher: EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD
Publication year: 2015
Journal: Fieldwork in Religion
Journal name in source: FIELDWORK IN RELIGION
Journal acronym: FIELDWORK RELIG
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
First page : 155
Last page: 172
Number of pages: 18
ISSN: 1743-0615
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.v10i1.18619
Abstract
Following the continuing general decline of institutional religion across the Western world, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the emergence of various types of, less conventionally organized, post-institutional forms of religion. Post-institutional religious spaces have, however, often proven difficult to pin down and grasp empirically through already available frameworks and concepts. This article aims to provide an impetus for further methodological discussion on the empirical study of post-institutional religious spaces through recontextualizing the framework of scene for the study of post-institutional religious spaces in actual practice. The article outlines and explicates the methodological utility of the framework of scene through applying it on a particular geographically located post-institutional religious space: the present-day so-called "fringe-knowledge" scene in Finland.
Following the continuing general decline of institutional religion across the Western world, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the emergence of various types of, less conventionally organized, post-institutional forms of religion. Post-institutional religious spaces have, however, often proven difficult to pin down and grasp empirically through already available frameworks and concepts. This article aims to provide an impetus for further methodological discussion on the empirical study of post-institutional religious spaces through recontextualizing the framework of scene for the study of post-institutional religious spaces in actual practice. The article outlines and explicates the methodological utility of the framework of scene through applying it on a particular geographically located post-institutional religious space: the present-day so-called "fringe-knowledge" scene in Finland.
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