| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 332 pages) |
| Series |
Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 103 |
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Studies in the history of religions ; 103.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Whither the study of religion? / Slavica Jakeliʹc and Lori Pearson -- The stubborn persistence of religion: some post-secular reflections / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- The stubborn persistence of debates about religion: a response to Friedrich Wilhelm Graf / Peter Berger -- The study of religions in the twentieth century / Hans G. Kippenberg -- The history of religions and the study of religions: a response to Hans Kippenberg / Christoph Schwöbel -- Difference and coherence in the worldwide study of religions / Michael Pye -- Response to Michael Pye / Robert Cummings Neville -- Globalization and the future study of religion / Bryan S. Turner -- Response to Bryan Turner / Adam B. Seligman -- The proper object of the study of religion: why it is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers / Ivan Strenski -- Problems, questions, and curiosities: a response to Ivan Strenski / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Diversity and the study of mysticism / Steven T. Katz -- Response to Steven Katz / Francis X. Clooney -- Engendering the study of religion / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Agency and evidence in feminist studies of religion: a response to Elizabeth Clark / Amy Hollywood -- Detraditionalizing the study of religion / Paul Heelas -- Response to Paul Heelas / Ann Braude -- Retraditionalizing the study of religion: the conflict of the faculties: theology and the economy of the sciences / John Milbank -- Theology or religious studies? The future of religious studies: a response to John Milbank / Paul Morris -- Ernst Troeltsch and the future of the study of religion / Trutz Rendtorff -- Response to Trutz Rendtorff / Sarah Coakley |
| Summary |
This volume brings together diverse voices from various fields within religious and theological studies for a conversation about the proper objects, goals, and methods for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. It approaches these questions by way of the most recent contemporary challenges, debates, and developments in the field, and provides a forum in which contending perspectives are tested and contested by their proponents and opponents. Contributors address topics such as: the connection between the 'normative' and the 'scientific' approaches to the study of religion, the meaning of religion in a context of globalization, the relation between religious studies and religious traditions, the viability of comparative and cultural studies of religious phenomena, and the future of gender studies in religion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion -- Study and teaching -- Congresses
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Religions -- Study and teaching -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Education.
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Religion -- Study and teaching
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Religions -- Study and teaching
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Religionswissenschaft
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Zukunft
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Godsdienstwetenschap.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jakelic, Slavica
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Pearson, Lori
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| ISBN |
1429408278 |
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9781429408271 |
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9789004123175 |
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9004123172 |
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