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Sociología de las religiones: una aproximación desde los manuales de la disciplina

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A partir de una selección de manuales de sociología de las religiones publicados en las últimas décadas, la presente nota de investigación explora las claves analíticas y los paradigmas de la disciplina en la actualidad. El debate sobre la secularización, las problemáticas en torno al concepto ‘religión’ y la emergencia de nuevas pers­pectivas constituyen los tres ejes a partir de los que exploraremos las ideas fundamentales de los manuales seleccionados. La necesidad de definición del fenómeno religioso a partir de la expe­riencia vivida y cotidiana y la reducción a mínimos de las categorías de estudio constituyen dos de los consensos básicos entre las distintas perspectivas de sociología de las religiones, cuyo debate continúa girando esencialmente en torno al cuestionamiento sobre la secularización.
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Volumen 42, 2024, pp. 1-10 | Recibido: 24 de febrero de 2021 | Aprobado: 26 de abril de 2021 |
Publicado: 23 de agosto de 2023 | :  | 
Nota de investigación
Sociología de las religiones:
una aproximación desde los manuales
de la disciplina
Sociology of Religions: An Approach Drawn
from the Handbooks of the Discipline
Rafael Ruiz Andrés*
Departamento de Sociología Aplicada



rafaru01@ucm.es
* XX: entre el
2018-099909-B-I00, , 
Resumen:    
de sociología de las religiones publicados en las

       
        
  -
       
        
     
-
   



       -
-

Abstract: This research note uses a selecon of
handbooks on the sociology of religion published
in recent decades to explore their analycal bases
and paradigms. The debate on secularizaon, the
pro blems surrounding the concept of religion and
the emergence of new perspecves constute
the three axes around which we will discuss the
key ideas in the selected handbooks. The need to
dene the religious phenomenon through its lived
and daily experience and the minimizaon of the
study categories constute two of the basic points
of consensus between the various perspecves in
the sociology of religion, which connues to revolve
primarily around secularizaon.
2Estudios Sociológicos XLII, publicación connua, 2024
Palabras clave: sociología de las religiones;
-

H    
obras”, escritas por ese elenco de pensadores que

-




   


otros campos de estudio, los marcos de compren-


   
fundamentales.
-
-

XX
 -

  
-
  

Desde ese momento, los acuerdos de mínimos han
-

-


-

-

   

  




-
     
  
-


   handbooks
companion to  
    
hablando de cierto sustrato común, de paradigmas


  
compone de los manuales editados o elaborados
-


The
Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion,


-

Keywords: sociology of religion; theoretical
analysis; secularisaon; pluralism; globalisaon.
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
1

    
  
et al.,






2018).


fundamentales en sociología de las religiones, de


   

-

  


    
-

intento de comprender un mundo que largamente

   
 
   -
1
       -
formaciones religiosas en la contemporaneidad, por lo que

-

et al


 




  
    

-
sas en la contemporaneidad.



mínimos” sobre el que se sustenta el actual debate

-

Nuevos enfoques sobre la secularización
y la laicidad
     
       
estudio de la sociología de las religiones como
      

  XX
parecieron contradecir las premisas sobre las que

por ende, parte del núcleo esencial de la sociología
de las religiones. Así pues, las obras citadas hacen
   
 


     


4Estudios Sociológicos XLII, publicación connua, 2024

The Blackwell Companion




    
   
    
  

-
-


aquellas realidades en que las religiones actúan
-

  
 

encontramos las huellas de la metamorfosis de lo
-

-
denominaonalism-

vicarious religion





-

  
    -
  
entre aquellos que consideran que se trata de un
  
  



    XX  


   
   

-


  
-

XX

 
  

 -
   

  -


religiosos operados en paralelo a los procesos de



Arat, 2018).

   
   
    
-


   

5



-


-

   


La religión: el objeto de estudio a debate
      
        

tado en demasiadas ocasiones a bancos de igle-
problems in the pews, en
 et al., 2016). Frente al predominio de

     

   
las transformaciones sociorreligiosas en la contem-



      
   
       


   




-




    


      
han efectuado en paralelo al propio proceso de


 
commodicaon, en Turner, 2010, p.
-

sesenta del siglo XX
La metamorfosis de lo sagrado en diferentes
     
aparen temente secularizadas, ha contribuido al


-



     


    
lived religion  
habitus, tomado de la sociología de


XXI

World Religions),
    
    cyber-
faithet al.
-

6Estudios Sociológicos XLII, publicación connua, 2024




  
  

    -

   

a priori 
obras analizadas apuntan a la necesidad de una

 
  
   







De este modo, las obras citadas abogan tanto por
una metodología que sea capaz de hacerse cargo del

-



Nuevas aproximaciones y paradigmas

  
 
     
       
     
     
  
      et
al-

  

de la propia sociología de las religiones.
 
  
XXI


-



embodiment)


-


siglo XXI

   
  


    


-




-

   


A este respecto, las diferentes obras recogen los ecos


-
mente abordada.
  
-


-
  
  -
 


 
-

congregaonalismet al.,
2016).


    
-
    


    

 
   

    
  

-




los 
  
estudio sobre las minorías religiosas no debería



2011, p. 326; Berger, 2016).
  
grueso social de un marco secular una de las bases
fundamentales sobre las que se erige el paradigma
    

  
desde inicios del siglo XXI, sobresale su creciente


-

 

que componen la sociedad tras un proceso de secula-

a contemplar a las religiones como reductos de un
    





Conclusiones: sociología de las religiones para un
mundo en transformación
        
-

     
      
      
-

8Estudios Sociológicos XLII, publicación connua, 2024
las c ons trucciones religiosas en el seno de un con-
   


      


      

a priori de las cate-

-



pública global, escasamente imaginable hace ape-


paradigma para el estudio de las relaciones entre
  


   


abriera a la hora de plantearse los derroteros de la

-






Referencias


The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Reli-
gion 
  

Foundaons and Futures in the Sociology
of Religion
Social theory and religion.

  Los numerosos altares de la
modernidad. En busca de un paradigma para
la religión en una época pluralista. Salamanca:
Sígueme.
Les lacités dans le monde.

  
   
Estudios Sociológicos, XXX

   -
dente. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Polícas y
Sociales, LXI
-
Transformaons
of Religion and the Public Sphere. Postsecular
Publics.  


Sociology of Religion: Contempo-
rary Developments

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
Manual de sociología de la
religión
 

The
Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion.

Poli
cal Theologies. Public Religions in a PostSecular
World. 
Sociología de la religión-


Hand
book of the Sociology of Religion 

  
    
Sociology
of Religion, 60
  
   
 Foundations and Futures in
the Sociology of Religion  
Routledge.
The Blackwell Companion
to Sociology of Religion
Publishing.


Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

-

 Handbook of the Sociology of
Religion

The Spiri
tual Revoluon: Why Religion Is Giving Way to
Spirituality
La religión invisible: el
problema de la religión en la sociedad moderna.
Salamanca: Sígueme.
La religión de la sociedad.

  
Religious Indierence. New Perspecves from
Studies on Secularizaon and Nonreligion



  -


Les théories de la secula-
risaon. Ginebra, Suiza: Librairie Droz.


The New Blackwell Companion to The Sociology
of Religion

 
  The New Blackwell Companion
to The Sociology of Religion

    
   The New
Blackwell Companion to The Sociology of R eli-
gion  

10 Estudios Sociológicos XLII, publicación connua, 2024

  Religions in the
Modern World. Tradions and transformaons.

Acerca del autor
Rafael Ruiz Andrés es profesor de Sociología en

   


-



-




     La secula-
rización en España. Rupturas y cambios
religiosos desde la sociología histórica.

 
    
     
    
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This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography, ethnicity, life course, inequality, political sociology) into the analysis of religion. Broadly inclusive of traditional research topics (modernity, secularization, politics) as well as newer interests (feminism, spirituality, faith based community action), this handbook illustrates the validity of diverse theoretical perspectives and research designs to understanding the multi-layered nature of religion as a sociological phenomenon.
Chapter
This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography, ethnicity, life course, inequality, political sociology) into the analysis of religion. Broadly inclusive of traditional research topics (modernity, secularization, politics) as well as newer interests (feminism, spirituality, faith based community action), this handbook illustrates the validity of diverse theoretical perspectives and research designs to understanding the multi-layered nature of religion as a sociological phenomenon.
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This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research. Religious indifference is a central category for understanding contemporary societies, and a controversial one. For some scholars, a growing religious indifference indicates a dramatic decline in religiosity and epitomizes the endpoint of secularization processes. Others view it as an indicator of moral apathy and philosophical nihilism, whilst yet others see it as paving the way for new forms of political tolerance and solidarity. This volume describes and analyses the symbolic power of religious indifference and the conceptual contestations surrounding it. Detailed case studies cover anthropological and qualitative data from the UK, Germany, Estonia, the USA, Canada, and India analyse large quantitative data sets, and provide philosophical-literary inquiries into the phenomenon. They highlight how, for different actors and agendas, religious indifference can constitute an objective or a challenge. Pursuing a relational approach to non-religion, the book conceptualizes religious indifference in its interrelatedness with religion as well as more avowed forms of non-religion.