Author : Gary David Comstock
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826409249
The first multi-disciplinary look at the intersection of queer experience and religious spirituality.
Author : George, Susan Ella
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1591407168
"This book examines the unique synergy between religion and technology, and explores the many ways that technology is shaping religious expression, as well as ways that religion is coming to influence technology"--Provided by publisher.
Author : William E. Paden
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807012122
From Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions.
Author : Thomas A. Idinopulos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004110229
Of Religion: BRIAN C. WILSON.
Author : Naser Ghobadzadeh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190664894
Using Iran as a case study, Ghobadzadeh investigates the paradoxes of the Islamic state ideal. He develops the seemingly oxymoronic term "religious secularity" and uses it to describe the Islamic quest for a democratic secular state.
Author : Seth Daniel Kunin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 36,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813539652
This book provides a comprehensive selection of readings that relate to and explore the definition of religion. The texts come from a wide range of approaches, unified both by the questions they are addressing and their broadly social scientific perspective. The disciplines covered include anthropology, phenomenology, psychology and sociology. The editors have also included some key texts relating to the feminist approach to and critique of religion. The first section of the book includes some of the foundational texts, such as materials by Marx, Freud, and Durkheim. The remaining sections look at more recent discussions of the issues from the different disciplinary perspectives. Each reading is introduced by a biographical sketch of the author. The book also includes introductory discussions to each section that both raise the key issues developed in a particular discipline and address the disciplinary approaches from a more critical stance. Theories of Religion: A Reader is an invaluable critical resource, accessible to a broad audience as well as students of theology and religious studies.
Author : Trude A. Fonneland
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3039437275
“Sámi Religion: Religious Identities, Practices, and Dynamics” explores expressions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ in contemporary cultures, the role it plays in identity politics and heritagization processes, and the ways the past and present are entangled. In recent years, attitudes towards ‘’Sámi religion’’ have changed both within religious, cultural, political, and educational contexts as a consequence of what can be called the ‘’Indigenous turn’’. Contemporary, indigenous religion is approached as a something that adds value by a range of diverse actors and for a variety of reasons. In this Special Issue, we take account of emic categories and connections, focusing on which notions of ‘’Sámi religion’’ are used today by religious entrepreneurs and others who share and promote these types of spiritual beliefs, and how Sámi religion is taking shape on a plenitude of arenas in contemporary society.
Author : Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317546008
Religious belief is one of the most pervasive and ubiquitous characteristics of human society. Religion has shadowed and illuminated human lives since primitive times, shaping the world views of cultures from isolated tribes to vast empires. Starting from the premise that religion is a concept which can be analysed and compared across time and cultures, What is Religion? brings the most up-to-date scholarship to bear on humankind’s most enduring creation. The book opens with a brief history of the idea of religion, then divides the study of religion into four essential topics - types, representations, practices, and institutions – and concludes with a final, eye-opening chapter on religion today. Packed with case studies from a wide range of religions, past and present, What is Religion? offers a very current, comprehensive, yet intellectually challenging overview of the history, theories, practices, and study of religion. Accessible, wide-ranging, engaging, and short, What is Religion? is written primarily for undergraduate students in the study of religion, but it will also be invaluable for students of anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and theology as well as anyone interested in how and why humans came and continue to be religious.
Author : Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110473593
Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlining the establishment of the discipline, its connections with other fields, religion as a subject of research, and perspectives on a phenomenological study of religion. Futhermore a second part comprises an anthology of texts from 41 scholars whose work was programmatic in the evolution of the academic study of religion. Each chapter presents a particular approach, theory, and method relevant to the study of religion. The pieces selected for this volume were taken from the discipline of religious studies as well as from related fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, to name a few.
Author : Lowell Gustafson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1000522946
This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current major religions are only centuries or millennia old, our volume discusses the origins and development of human religious practice and belief over our species’ existence of 300,000 years. The volume also connects the scientific approach to natural and social history with ancient truths of our religious ancestors using new lines of inquiry, new technologies, new modes of expression, and new concepts. It brings together insights of natural scientists, social scientists, philosophers, writers, and theologians to discuss narratives of the universe. The essays discuss that to apprehend religion scientifically, or to interpret and explain science theologically, the subject must be examined through a variety of disciplinary lenses simultaneously and raise several theoretical, philosophical, and moral problems. With a singular investigation into the meaning of religion in the context of the 13.8 billion-year history of our universe, this book will be indispensable for scholars and students of religious studies, big history, sociology and social anthropology, philosophy, and science and technology studies.
