What is Religion?, Origins, Definitions, and Explanations.

What is Religion?, Origins, Definitions, and Explanations.

What is Religion? consists of fourteen essays written by a selection of scholars who represent a wide spectrum of approaches to the acedamic study of religion. Each of the essays is an effort not only to take stock of the present controversy concerning appropriate methodologies for the study of reli...

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Main Author: Idinopulos; Brian C. Wilson (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1998.

Series: Numen Book Series 81.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Religion.
Religion > Study and teaching.
Religious history.

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Call Number: BL48 .W342 1998

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson
  • On the Disorientation of the Study of Religion /
  • Clayton Crockett
  • Religion and the Psycho-Cultural Formation of Ideals /
  • James J. DiCenso
  • The Difficulties of Understanding Religion /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos
  • Defining Religion... Going the Theoretical Way /
  • E. Thomas Lawson
  • Redescribing "Religion" as Social Formation: Toward a Social Theory of Religion /
  • Russell T. McCutcheon
  • The Exemplary Life /
  • Dan Merkur
  • Religion, World, Plurality /
  • William E. Paden
  • Diagnosing Religion /
  • Robert Segal
  • On "Religion" and Its Despisers /
  • Ivan Strenski
  • What on Earth is Religion? /
  • James Wiggins
  • From the Lexical to the Polythetic: A Brief History of the Definition of Religion /
  • Brian C. Wilson
  • Thinking Religion /
  • Charles E. Winquist
  • Select Bibliography /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson
  • Index of Names /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson
  • Index of Subjects /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Brian C. Wilson.