Over the last three decades, fruitful new lines of research and theorizing have revealed the inadequacy of secularization and rational choice explanations of religion. This article argues that sociological understandings of religion can best advance now by building on the empirical findings that have emerged under the banner of “lived religion,” but grounding that work in theories of social practice. Going beyond the Western, individualist focus of recent research, the approach explicated in this article details a multidimensional lens for the study of the practices themselves and an outline of the types of historical and legal cultural repertoires that shape practice around the world. Together these frameworks can facilitate sociological research on religion both inside and beyond religious institutions and across cultural contexts.

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重新思考宗教：走向实践方法

在过去的三年里，富有成效的新研究和理论揭示了世俗化和宗教理性选择解释的不足。本文认为，通过建立在“活的宗教”旗帜下出现的实证发现的基础上，现在可以最好地推进对宗教的社会学理解，但以社会实践理论为基础。超越西方最近研究的个人主义焦点，本文阐述的方法详细介绍了研究实践本身的多维视角，并概述了塑造世界各地实践的历史和法律文化曲目的类型。这些框架一起可以促进宗教机构内部和外部以及跨文化背景的宗教社会学研究。