The Ideology of Religious Studies
The Ideology of Religious Studies

Author: Timothy Fitzgerald

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-10-16

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0195347153

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In recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India and Japan, and through a detailed analysis of the use of religion in a wide range of scholarly texts, the author maintains that the comparative study of religion is really a form of liberal ecumenical theology. By pretending to be a science, religion significantly distorts socio-cultural analysis. He suggest, however, that religious studies can be re-represented in a way which opens up new and productive theoretical connections with anthropology and cultural and literary studies.

Critical Terms for Religious Studies
Critical Terms for Religious Studies

Author: Mark C. Taylor

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-08-15

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780226791562

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Following in the very successful tradition of Critical Terms for Literary Studies and Critical Terms for Art History, this book attempts to provide a revitalized, self-aware vocabulary with which this bewildering religious diversity can be accurately described and responsibly discussed. Leading scholars working in a variety of traditions demonstrate through their incisive discussions that even our most basic terms for understanding religion are not neutral but carry specific historical and conceptual freight.

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.

Religious Studies: The Key Concepts
Religious Studies: The Key Concepts

Author: Carl Olson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1136902066

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An accessible, A-Z resource, defining and explaining key terms and ideas central to the study of religion. Exploring broad and recurring themes which are applicable in both eastern and western religions, cross-cultural examples are provided for each term to give a comprehensive overview of the subject.

Worldview Religious Studies
Worldview Religious Studies

Author: Douglas J Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-17

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 100057959X

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Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The drive for meaning-making is explored through ritual-symbolic activities, ideas of ‘play’, and the power of emotions to transform simple ideas into values and beliefs that frame identity and signpost destiny. Identity and its sacralisation are discussed alongside gift/reciprocity theory in their relation to ideas of merit, karma, and salvation in Eastern and Western traditions. This theoretical background is used to introduce a new classification of worldviews - natural, scientific, ancestral, karmic, prophetic-sectarian, mystical, and ideological. Organised thematically by chapter, this book brings together familiar and unfamiliar authors, theories, and sources to challenge students and teachers of Religious Studies, Theology, and Ethics. It introduces worldview religious studies as a framework through which to re-think human endeavours to identify, cope and even transcend life’s flaws and perils.

Between Dancing and Writing
Between Dancing and Writing

Author: Kimerer L. LaMothe

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780823224036

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This book provides philosophical grounds for an emerging area of scholarship: the study of religion and dance. In the first part, LaMothe investigates why scholars in religious studies have tended to overlook dance, or rhythmic bodily movement, in favor of textual expressions of religious life. In close readings of Descartes, Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Kierkegaard, LaMothe traces this attitude to formative moments of the field in which philosophers relied upon the practice of writing to mediate between the study of religion, on the one hand, and theology, on the other.In the second part, LaMothe revives the work of theologian, phenomenologist, and historian of religion Gerardus van der Leeuw for help in interpreting how dancing can serve as a medium of religious experience and expression. In so doing, LaMothe opens new perspectives on the role of bodily being in religious life, and on the place of theology in the study of religio

Introduction to Religious Studies
Introduction to Religious Studies

Author: Paul O. Myhre

Publisher: Anselm Academic Christian Brothers Pub.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780884899761

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Filling the need for a clear, solid overview to introduction to religious studies courses, this text is neither too broad nor too narrow. Chapters explore what religion is and how it is formed and studied; religious experience; truth claims; ethics and moral theology; violence and religion; social involvement; religion and the environment; asceticism and mysticism; religion, technology, and science; religions and their words, stories, writings, and books; and more. The text respects cultural considerations and the contemporary global climate in showing religious studies in action and exploring questions of theory, method, and research. The contributing authors are in tune with college students' interests and are well suited to address the issues and methods of religious studies. Designed for college students taking their first course in the study of religion, such as introduction to religious studies and world religions.

After World Religions
After World Religions

Author: Christopher R Cotter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1317419952

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The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations and innovative solutions. An international team of scholars addresses the challenges presented in their different departmental, institutional, and geographical contexts. Instructors developing syllabi will find supplementary reading lists and specific suggestions to help guide their teaching. Students at all levels will find the book an invaluable entry point into an area of ongoing scholarly debate.

Theory for Religious Studies
Theory for Religious Studies

Author: William E. Deal

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780415966382

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Religious Studies
Religious Studies

Author: Gregory D. Alles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1134152701

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Drawing on recent developments in the comparative study of religion, this book explores the trends of the past sixty years from a global perspective. Each of the ten chapters covers the study of religion in a different region of the world, from Europe and the Americas to Asia and the Far East. Topics covered include: local background to the study of religions formation of religious studies in the region important thinkers and writings institutions interregional diversity and interregional connections emerging issues. This book is a major contribution to the field of religious studies and a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students.