Religion and cultural capital in the UK today: identity, cultural engagement and the prevalence of multiple religious identities

IF 2.3 1区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

European Societies Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI:10.1080/14616696.2022.2132524

Adam Gemar

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT Scholarship on social class occupies a particular pedestal in British sociology. However, recent research into the connections between religion and social position is conspicuously absent. Using a UK-wide survey, I employ Bourdieu and various statistical methods to investigate the complex cultural capital compositions of various religious identities. The findings identify a four-group typology of cultural engagement. I also identify those holding multiple religious identities as a new and prominent religious identity in the UK today, one that is highly culturally active. I explain these results through neo-Bourdieusian theories of the reconfiguration of distinction in the forms of openness and cosmopolitanism, and through arguments for the importance of cultural and social variety in accumulating capital. The unique group that has these multiple religious identities is also a prime candidate for further research into how religious dispositions may operate as its own form of cultural capital.

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今天英国的宗教和文化资本:身份、文化参与和多重宗教身份的流行

社会阶级研究在英国社会学中占有特殊的地位。然而，最近关于宗教和社会地位之间关系的研究明显缺失。通过一项英国范围内的调查，我采用布迪厄和各种统计方法来调查各种宗教身份的复杂文化资本构成。研究结果确定了文化参与的四种类型。我也认为那些拥有多重宗教身份的人是当今英国一种新的、突出的宗教身份，一种高度文化活跃的宗教身份。我通过以开放和世界主义的形式重新配置差异的新布尔迪乌理论，以及通过对文化和社会多样性在积累资本中的重要性的论证，来解释这些结果。拥有这些多重宗教身份的独特群体也是进一步研究宗教倾向如何作为其自身文化资本形式运作的主要候选者。

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European Societies SOCIOLOGY-

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15.70

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1.20%

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