The Cambridge companion to religious studies
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- ISBN: 9780521883917 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xiv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | PART I. Religion and religious studies: the irony of inheritance -- On sympathy, suspicion, and studying religion: historical reflections on a doubled inheritance / Leigh E. Schmidt -- Thinking about religion, belief and politics / Talal Asad -- Special things as building blocks of religions / Ann Taves -- The problem of the holy / Robert A. Orsi -- Part II. Major theoretical problems -- Social order or social chaos / Michael J. Puett -- Tradition: the power of constraint / Michael L. Satlow -- The text and the world / Anne M. Blackburn -- On the role of normativity in religious studies / Thomas A. Lewis -- Translation / Martin Kavka -- Material religion / Matthew Engelke -- Theology and the study of religion: a relationship / Christine Helmer -- Part III. Methodological variations -- Buddhism and violence / Bernard Faure -- Practicing religions / Courtney Bender -- The look of the sacred / David Morgan -- Reforming culture: law and religion today / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- Sexing religion / R. Marie Griffith -- Constituting ethical subjectivities / Leela Prasad -- Neo-Pentecostalism and globalization / Marla Frederick -- Religious criticism, secular critique, and the 'critical study of religion': lessons from the study of Islam / Noah Salomon and Jeremy F. Walton. |
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