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Jason A. Springs
Researcher at University of Notre Dame
Publications - 24
Citations - 222
Jason A. Springs is an academic researcher from University of Notre Dame. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pragmatism & Politics. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 23 publications receiving 198 citations. Previous affiliations of Jason A. Springs include American University.
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Roundtable on the Sociology of Religion: Twenty-Three Theses on the Status of Religion in American Sociology—A Mellon Working-Group Reflection
Christian Smith,Brandon Vaidyanathan,Nancy T. Ammerman,José Casanova,Hilary Davidson,Elaine Howard Ecklund,John H. Evans,Philip S. Gorski,Mary Ellen Konieczny,Jason A. Springs,Jenny Trinitapoli,Meredith C. Whitnah +11 more
TL;DR: This article explored several reasons for American sociologists' neglect of religion, focusing on key historical, conceptual, methodological, and institutional factors, and offered a number of proposals to help remedy American sociology's negligence of religion and advance the study of religion in particular.
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What Cultural Theorists of Religion Have to Learn from Wittgenstein; Or, How to Read Geertz as a Practice Theorist
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a Wittgensteinian understanding of practice theory coheres with, and illuminates, Clifford Geertz's account of meaning, thick description, and religious practices.
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Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society: From Enemy to Adversary
TL;DR: Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society as mentioned in this paper develops an approach to democratic discourse and coalition-building across deep moral and religious divisions in contemporary US public life, focusing on conflict transformation in peace studies, recent American pragmatist thought, and models of agonistic democracy.
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Pragmatism and Democracy: Assessing Jeffrey Stout's Democracy and Tradition
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“DISMANTLING THE MASTER'S HOUSE”: Freedom as Ethical Practice in Brandom and Foucault
TL;DR: The authors make a case for the capacity of social practice accounts of agency and freedom to criticize, resist, and transform systemic forms of power and domination from within the context of religious and political practices and institutions.