Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774867639 ISBN 13: 9780774867634

Publisher: UBC Press, 2022

Synopsis

The Cascadia bioregion – British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon – has long been at the forefront of cultural shifts occurring throughout North America, in particular regarding religious institutions, ideas, and practices. Religion at the Edge explores the rise of religious “nones,” the decline of mainstream Christian denominations, spiritual and environmental innovation, increasing religious pluralism, and the growth of smaller, more traditional faith groups in Cascadia. This volume is the first research-driven book to address religion, spirituality, and irreligion in the Pacific Northwest, past and present. Employing surveys, archival sources, interviews, and focus groups, contributors showcase a spectrum of adherents from Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Baha’i, New Age, Indigenous, and irreligious communities. Religion at the Edge expands our understanding of contemporary society, pursuing empirical and theoretical debates about the nature, scale, and implications of socio-religious changes in North America, and the relevance of regionalism to that discussion.

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About the Author

Paul Bramadat is a professor and the director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is a co-editor of numerous publications, among them Urban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces, with Julia Martinez-Ariño, Mar Griera, and Marian Burchardt, and Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond, with Lorne Dawson. Patricia O’Connell Killen is a professor emerita and faculty fellow at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She is a co-editor of The Future of Catholicism in America and Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone, both with Mark Silk. Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. She is a co-author, with Joel Thiessen, of None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada.

Contributors: Tina Block, Rachel D. Brown, Katie E. Corcoran, Chelsea Horton, Lynne Marks, Susanna Morrill, Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, Mark Silk, James K. Wellman Jr., Michael Wilkinson

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774867639
• ISBN 13: 9780774867634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Bramadat Paul, O'Connell Killen Patricia, Wilkins-Laflamme Sarah