集美麻豆

Abstract

Social scientists and commentators are fond of pointing to signs that religion is declining or disappearing, citing everything from membership losses to fewer people who believe in a literal hell and the number of church buildings that are empty. But what if those aren鈥檛 the right measures? Scholars have increasingly been answering that question by pointing to 鈥漧ived religion.鈥� Religion as lived encompasses all the ways we experience life 鈥� through our bodies, emotions, and aesthetic sensibility, by making things and telling stories that remind us of the sacred, and by finding a moral center to live by. All those things happen inside churches and synagogues and mosques, but they also happen in everyday life. They can be very personal, but they are also shaped by communities and traditions.