The End of Religion Study Companion
The End of Religion Study Companion

Author: Bruxy Cavey

Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1513808672

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Sick of religion? So was Jesus. Around the world a movement is growing. People are waking up to the spiritual beauty of the teachings of Jesus while rejecting the many ugly aspects of the religion that bears his name. If you are among those who are disappointed with religion yet are still strangely pulled toward spirituality, author Bruxy Cavey will help you make sense of it all. Join Bruxy Cavey in an exploration of how twenty-first-century people can live into the subversive spirituality of a first-century radical and discover what the Bible claims is the world God originally intended and still desires: a world without religion. The End of Religion Study Guide will help you and your group unpack Cavey’s teachings in The End of Religion to help you understand, discuss, and live into the subversive spirituality of Jesus.

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion
The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion

Author: John Hinnells

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-21

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 1134318464

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Providing a genuinely full guide to the theory and methods related to religious studies, this text - written entirely by world-renowned specialists - is the ideal resource for those studying the discipline.

The End of Religion
The End of Religion

Author: Bruxy Cavey

Publisher: Tyndale House

Published: 2014-02-27

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1615215026

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In The End of Religion, Bruxy Cavey shares that relationship has no room for religion. Believers and seekers alike will discover anew the wondrous promise found in our savior. And Christ’s eternal call to walk in love and freedom will resonate with readers of all ages and denominations.

The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies

Author: Robert A. Orsi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 0521883911

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Informative and provocative, this book introduces readers to debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggests future research possibilities.

The Proper Study of Religion
The Proper Study of Religion

Author: Sam D. Gill

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0197527221

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In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Building on Smith's foundational legacy through creative encounters, Gill explores an extensive range of absorbing topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; play, philosophically understood, as a core dynamic of Smith's entire program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the sensory-rich real world of religions; and self-moving as providing a biological and philosophical foundation on which to develop and expand upon a proper academic study of religion.

Recent Reference Books in Religion
Recent Reference Books in Religion

Author: William M. Johnston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-27

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1135923027

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Recent Reference Books in Religion provides incisive summaries and evaluations of more than 350 contemporary reference works on religious traditions ancient and modern that have been published in English, French and German. For maximum usefulness to readers, Professor Johnston has broadly defined religion to include not just the world religion of Christianity , Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism but also such alternative approaches as mythology, folklore, and the philosophy of ethics. Each entry, analyzing a particular work, includes full bibliographic details as well as commentary: outstanding articles and contributors are highlighted, strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed. Readers are directed to volumes whose strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed. Readers are directed to volumes whose strengths complement the weaknesses of others. An indispensable guide in any religious studies collection, Recent Reference Books in Religion: 2nd Edition includes works published through the end of 1997. It also includes a Glossary that describes types and functions of refernce books, and five indexes: Titles, Authors, Topics, Persons and Places.

Studying Religion
Studying Religion

Author: Russell T. McCutcheon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1317491661

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Widely used as a primer, a text and a provocation to critical thinking, 'Studying Religion' aims to develop students' skills. The book clearly explains the methods and theories employed in the study of religion. Essays are offered on a range of topics: from the history and functions of religion to public discourse on religion and the classification of religions. The works of key scholars - from Karl Marx, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudolf Otto to Mircea Eliade, James G. Frazer, and Sigmund Freud - are analysed and explored. 'Studying Religion' represents a shift away from the traditional focus of describing the exotic or curious religious 'Other' to an examination of how religious behaviours and institutions are studied. The book will be invaluable to students of religious studies.

The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion
The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion

Author: Peter Harrison

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-24

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0521712513

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This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.

Contemporary Theories of Religion
Contemporary Theories of Religion

Author: Michael Stausberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-06-19

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1134041489

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Interest in theories of religion has never been greater. Scholars debate single theoretical approaches in different scholarly journals, while the ‘new atheists’ such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett criticize the whole idea of religion. For everyone eager to understand the current state of the field, Contemporary Theories of Religion surveys the neglected landscape in its totality. Michael Stausberg brings together leading scholars of the field to review and discuss seventeen contemporary theories of religion. As well as scholars of religion, it features anthropologists, archaeologists, classicists, evolutionary biologists, philosophers and sociologists. Each chapter provides students with background information on the theoretician, a presentation of the theory’s basic principles, an analysis of basic assumptions, and a review of previous critiques. Concluding with a section entitled 'Back and Forth', Stausberg compares the different theories and points to further avenues of discussion for the future.

The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements
The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements

Author: Olav Hammer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0521196507

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This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.