Detailed Information on Publication Record
2016
From Religion to Ordering Uncertainty: A Lesson from Dancers
FUJDA, MilanBasic information
Original name
From Religion to Ordering Uncertainty: A Lesson from Dancers
Authors
FUJDA, Milan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
1st. Sheffield, The Relational Dynamics of Enchantment and Sacralization: Changing the Terms of the Religion Versus Secularity Debate, p. 207-230, 24 pp. The Study of Religion in a Global Context, 1, 2016
Publisher
Equinox
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize
Field of Study
60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Publication form
printed version "print"
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/16:00091040
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
ISBN
978-1-78179-474-6
Keywords in English
unpredictability; improvisation; ethnomethodology; ordering practices; study of religion
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 22/1/2022 00:18, Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
This chapter is based on an ethnography of dance improvisation. It analyses instances of handling unpredictability and fragility in ordinary life. It shows that such situations are common and that people are well-skilled in dealing with them without recourse to the idea of a clearly defined order. While the imperatives of modernity seem to lead to a preference for clear orders and calculable means, people in ordinary practice handle disorders arising from unpredictability and complexity by developing and mixing strategies which acknowledge the lack of order. It seems that no practical distinction arises between modern and non-modern people in this case. Furthermore, due to the human tendency to mix various “rational” and “irrational” strategies to overcome unpredictable and fragile situations, the theoretical notion of separated spheres of “secular” and “religious” also loses any practical relevance. Managing chronic illness and pain with its demand for traversing evidence-based medical practices, traditional science, magic, prayer, and so forth in order to gain control over a patient’s situation is a key example of this. The point of the chapter is fourfold: 1) analysing such situations leads the study of religion(s) beyond such binaries as “religious” and “secular”, or “traditional” and “modern”; 2) it moves the study from marginal, exotic themes towards the core issues of human behaviour in culture and society; 3) it helps the study grasp the meaning and significance of what once used to be called “religion” with a practical relevance for actual human (inter)action(s); and 4) it thus helps the discipline to stop being “the marginal discipline of the margins, picking up the crumbs that fall from the other disciplines’ banquet table”, as Bruno Latour once said about anthropology, and to begin to address the important issues of life of societies and cultures.
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