ABSTRACT

This essay assesses the extent to which historians of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries have responded to calls to integrate religion and belief to cultural and social methodologies and refocus analysis away from secularisation. It contends that more work is required and suggests alternative frameworks to bring to light the distinctive and often implicit workings of religious belief, spirituality, and notions of the sacred that permeated ordinary people’s lives. By focusing on three recent methodological ‘turns’ – personal, material, and emotional – the paper invites historians to consider a more symbiotic relationship between religion, belief, culture, and society, than is currently the case.

摘要

本文评估了 19 世纪和 20 世纪早期的历史学家对将宗教和信仰融入文化和社会方法论并将分析从世俗化重新关注的呼吁做出回应的程度。它认为需要做更多的工作，并提出了替代框架，以揭示渗透在普通人生活中的宗教信仰、灵性和神圣观念的独特且往往隐含的运作。通过关注最近的三个方法论“转向”——个人、物质和情感——本文邀请历史学家考虑宗教、信仰、文化和社会之间比目前情况更共生的关系。