Albert Piette and lived (non-)religion: Conceptual and methodological considerations

Author:Beaman, Lori G.; Strumos, Lauren

Article Title:Albert Piette and lived (non-)religion: Conceptual and methodological considerations

Abstract:
This article considers how the work of Albert Piette can enhance a sociological understanding of religion as lived in everyday life. Although Piette is critical of sociologists in La Religion de pres (1999), his work resonates with scholarship on 'lived religion' by contemporary sociologists of religion. This article locates points of overlap and divergence between Piette and scholars of lived religion, and then turns its attention towards the emergent study of lived non-religion. It concludes that while Piette's micro-level approach to religious life has limitations for sociologists, he still offers conceptual and methodological perspectives that contribute to research on lived religion and non-religion. To demonstrate this argument, Piette's work is drawn into a discussion of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future's Community Gardens research project, which explores how religious and non-religious actors enact and construct their (non-)religion in community gardens. Cet article examine comment les travaux d'Albert Piette peuvent ameliorer la comprehension sociologique de la religion telle qu'elle est vecue dans la vie quotidienne. Bien que Piette critique les sociologues dans La Religion de pres (1999), son travail entre en resonance avec les travaux sur la religion vecue menes par les sociologues de la religion contemporains. Cet article identifie les points de chevauchement et de divergence entre Piette et les specialistes de la religion vecue, puis s'interesse a l'etude emergente de la non-religion vecue. Il conclut que si l'approche micro-niveau de la vie religieuse de Piette presente des limites pour les sociologues, elle offre neanmoins des perspectives conceptuelles et methodologiques qui contribuent a la recherche sur la religion vecue et la non-religion. Pour demontrer cet argument, le travail de Piette est integre dans une discussion sur le projet de recherche Nonreligion in a Complex Future's Community Gardens, qui explore la maniere dont les acteurs religieux et non religieux mettent en oe uvre et construisent leur (non-)religion dans les jardins communautaires.

Keywords:  Lived religion; non-religion; social sciences of religion; qualitative research; community gardens; Religion vecue; sciences sociales de la religion; recherche qualitative; jardins communautaires

DOI: 10.1177/00084298241236946

Source:STUDIES IN RELIGION-SCIENCES RELIGIEUSES

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