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I outline an approach to lived religion that gives ‘religion from below’ full consideration and connects our scholarship of religious pluralism to the lived experiences of people in their everyday lives to understand the emergent lived religious pluralisms they are generating. My approach shows that religious pluralism in lived religion is more than how people experience macrosocial religious pluralisms but is also how individual people co-generate among themselves new religious pluralisms and mutual understandings.
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Giles, D. (2019). Uncovering Neglected Emerging Lived Religious Pluralisms. In: Bock, JJ., Fahy, J., Everett, S. (eds) Emergent Religious Pluralisms. Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13811-0_7
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