Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
11-2025
Abstract
This chapter explores how religious practices and identities intersect with the home as both a construct and physical locale and surveys the social science literature on religion in/and the home. We argue that the shifting space-times of religious practice reflect and influence the changeable and porous boundaries between public and private space, the home and beyond the home. This influence is shown by reference to three areas of focus: the home as a private space of and for religion; the use of religion to cross social and spatial boundaries of home; and the reconfiguration of the home in religious practice in response to the growth of digitally mediated forms of religious practice. The chapter concludes by offering directions for further research.
Keywords
Religion, housing, private space
Discipline
Place and Environment | Religion
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Publication
The Routledge Handbook of Home
Editor
Elaine Stratford & Katie Walsh
First Page
385
Last Page
394
ISBN
9781003374428
Identifier
10.4324/9781003374428-38
Publisher
Routledge
City or Country
London
Citation
GRIMLEY, Emma Alexandra; WOODS, Orlando; and KONG, Lily.
Home and religion. (2025). The Routledge Handbook of Home. 385-394.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/434
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003374428-38