Dr. McGuire is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, now retired. She is the former President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association for the Sociology of Religion. She is also a specialist in environmental sociology and in sociology of health and illness.
Her most popular work includes Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life (Oxford, 2008) and Ritual Healing in Suburban America (Rutgers, 1988), funded by the National Institute of Health.
In Part 2 of this week's interview, Meredith McGuire continues to speak to Martin about the multiple issues of power, normativity and embodiment of religious life that can be observed through her concept of Lived Religion. Meredith McGuire shows how Lived Religion, a concept she has coined,...
Dr. Meredith McGuire talks about the multiple issues of power, normativity and embodiment of religious life that can be observed through her concept of Lived Religion. Part 2 on Wednesday! Meredith McGuire shows how Lived Religion, a concept she has coined, is at the core of this distinction and offers a way of understanding religious experiences as creative,
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