Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Discourse Analysis as an Anthropology of the Mundane: An Interview 7
5. Entering Discourses: A New Agenda for Qualitative Research and the Sociology of Knowledge 23
6. Religious Discourse and Its Modules 57
7. Historical Discourse Analysis: The Entanglement of Past and Present 77
8. Whose Voice Is This? The Multicultural Drama from CDA and DST Perspectives 89
9. Some Important Conceptual Lines of Discourse Theories in Cultural Studies of Religion 107
10. The Power Politics of ‘Religion’: Discursive Analysis of Religion in Political Science and International Relations 125
11. Religion, Discourse, and the Economy Question: Fraught Issues in Market Societies 145
12. Dynamics of the Human Rights Discourse on Freedom of Religion – Observed from the Religious Studies Angle 169
13. Gender and Its Vicissitudes 183
14. ‘Beyond’ Language? Ecology, Ontology, and Aesthetics 231
15. Index of Key Terms 243
16. Index of Places 247
17. Index of People 249