Certain institutions traditionally have had broad socializing influence over their members, providing templates for identity that comprehend all aspects of life from the existential and moral to the mundanely material. Marketization and detradi-tionalization undermine that socializing role. This study examines the conse-quences when, for some members, such an institution loses its authority to structure identity. With a hermeneutical method and a perspective grounded in Bourdieu’s theories of fields and capital, this research investigates the experiences of disaf-fected members of a religious institution and consumption field. Consumers face severe crises of identity and the need to rebuild their self-understandings in an unfamiliar marketp...
This article explores questions of identity and culture in relation to the present systemic crises t...
The purpose of this paper is an analysis of the recent return of the religion on the public scene of...
Religious life is studied by way suggested by the rational choice theory and the religious capital t...
Certain institutions traditionally have had broad socializing influence over their members, providin...
Certain institutions traditionally have had broad socializing influence over their members, providin...
Despite the prediction that modernization would lead to secularization, the past 30 years brought a ...
Previous scholarly work in consumer research has focused on sociological consumption from a number o...
Consumption choices assist in solving the problem of how to convey and recognize religious identitie...
The sociology of religion is something that is at its core, messy. Those who study the subject must ...
<p><span lang="EN-US">The theory of the religious market begins with the observation of religious pl...
Cataloged from PDF version of article.Sociopolitical analyses of religion evidence the increasing pr...
This paper considers how our understanding of religious identifications may be enriched through soci...
How does dull turn into cool? Every now and then new markets emerge and consumption that used to be ...
Bauman (2009) argues that the social production of our identity and individuality is a trivial trut...
This paper explores to what extent consumerism influences the representation and moral structure of ...
This article explores questions of identity and culture in relation to the present systemic crises t...
The purpose of this paper is an analysis of the recent return of the religion on the public scene of...
Religious life is studied by way suggested by the rational choice theory and the religious capital t...
Certain institutions traditionally have had broad socializing influence over their members, providin...
Certain institutions traditionally have had broad socializing influence over their members, providin...
Despite the prediction that modernization would lead to secularization, the past 30 years brought a ...
Previous scholarly work in consumer research has focused on sociological consumption from a number o...
Consumption choices assist in solving the problem of how to convey and recognize religious identitie...
The sociology of religion is something that is at its core, messy. Those who study the subject must ...
<p><span lang="EN-US">The theory of the religious market begins with the observation of religious pl...
Cataloged from PDF version of article.Sociopolitical analyses of religion evidence the increasing pr...
This paper considers how our understanding of religious identifications may be enriched through soci...
How does dull turn into cool? Every now and then new markets emerge and consumption that used to be ...
Bauman (2009) argues that the social production of our identity and individuality is a trivial trut...
This paper explores to what extent consumerism influences the representation and moral structure of ...
This article explores questions of identity and culture in relation to the present systemic crises t...
The purpose of this paper is an analysis of the recent return of the religion on the public scene of...
Religious life is studied by way suggested by the rational choice theory and the religious capital t...