Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing...
by Symon Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Religion is a term that is often used in the media and public life without any clarification. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of different beliefs. It is a loaded word that has a different meaning for every person; religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue...
by Jeffrey Scholes, Raphael Sassower
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of...
by Robert N. McCauley, E. Thomas Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty years ago, the cognitive science of religion has raised questions about the philosophical foundations and implications of such a scientific approach....
Enjoying Religion
Pleasure and Fun in Established and New Religious Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
“Enjoying religion” seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is the first to study the increase of enjoying religion systematically by presenting eleven new case studies, occurring on four continents. The volume...
by Lars Renngardt
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 2,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Hausarbeit 'Ist Scientology...
by Lars Renngardt
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Essay aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 1,5, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Essay 'Der Begriff der Religion' Gliederung...
by Lars Renngardt
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Essay aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Religionswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der hier verfasste Essay wird das Werk...
Fields of Blood
Religion and the History of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence.
For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories,...
Why Study Religion?
Understanding Humanity's Pursuit of the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Why Studying Religion Matters in a Pluralistic Context
This brief primer explains why Christian students should study religion, how they should go about it, and why it is important in our contemporary, pluralistic context. Senior religion scholar Terry Muck introduces the discipline and explains...
The Divine Source and World Unity
Selected Works of Adolph Moses for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Adolph Moses taught that the true religion of Moses is recognition of the one God for everyone everywhere, not a tribal religion forming the basis for an ethnic state in the Middle East. Moses emphasized the universal nature of Judaism and all true religion. He adopted the term "Yahvism"...
Religion in the American South
Protestants and Others in History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in the American South builds upon a new generation...