Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 953 g
ISBN: 978-0-470-65656-3
Verlag: Wiley
Praise for the previous edition:
“This volume, expertly edited and introduced by Segal, collects a series of essays that combine clarity and accessibility with nuance and balance … and are uniformly of high quality, each with a helpful bibliography that supplements the volume bibliography… This work will command a wide audience, ranging from the general public to religious studies specialists. Highly recommended.”
—CHOICE
“This is an excellent volume of papers about the study of religion both in conception and execution … Robert Segal has done a marvelous job in editing the volume and providing a bibliography and index … a very useful, well constructed and interesting book that should be widely read and used on courses.”
—British Association for the Study of Religions Bulletin
Now in its second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion offers an expertly compiled and comprehensive overview of contemporary religious studies across the humanities and the social sciences. Truly interdisciplinary in its methodology and featuring an international team of contributors from diverse academic backgrounds, this Companion explores the anthropological, economic, literary, philosophical, psychological, sociological, and theological terrain of religious studies, and presupposes no prior knowledge of the academic study of religion.
Each chapter is framed around an approach to religious studies from the vantage point of an adjacent discipline or topic that contributes to our understanding of religion, and is accompanied by its own bibliography to guide further reading. New to this edition are chapters which reflect contemporary trends in scholarship, including gender, science, law, music, emotion, cognition, globalization, and violence. Standard topics like death and the afterlife, ethics, fundamentalism, magic, ritual, and myth, among others, have been rigorously updated to reflect new directions in research and foster discussion among disciplines.
Ideal for students and scholars alike, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion remains an authoritative resource in the study of religion for anyone working in the fields of religious studies, theology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, history, and philosophy.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of Contributors viii
About the Editors x
Introduction xi
Robert A. Segal
Part I Approaches 1
1 Anthropology of Religion 3
Fiona Bowie
2 Economics of Religion 25
Rodney Stark
3 Literature and Religion 44
Eric Ziolkowski
4 Phenomenology of Religion 65
Thomas Ryba
5 Philosophy of Religion 93
Charles Taliaferro
6 Psychology of Religion 113
Roderick Main
7 Sociology of Religion 135
Titus Hjelm
8 Theology 152
Ian S. Markham
Part II T opics 169
9 Body 171
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg
10 Cognitive Science 184
Jesper Sorensen
11 Comparative Method 197
Paul Roscoe
12 Death and Afterlife 209
Douglas J. Davies
13 Emotion 219
Tony Milligan
14 Esotericism 229
Karl Baier
15 Ethics 241
G. Scott Davis
16 Functionalism 253
Robert A. Segal
17 Fundamentalism 265
Henry Munson
18 Globalization 277
Michael Wilkinson
19 History 289
Robert A. Yelle
20 Law 302
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
21 Magic 315
Kocku von Stuckrad
22 Modernism and Postmodernism 325
Paul-Francois Tremlett
23 Music 335
Guy L. Beck
24 Myth 348
Robert A. Segal
25 Nationalism 361
Mark Juergensmeyer
26 Pilgrimage 371
Simon Coleman
27 Ritual 382
Part I by Catherine Bell -- Part II by Jens Kreinath
28 Science 400
Ralph O'Connor
29 Secularization 414
Steve Bruce
30 Sex and Gender 429
Ivan Strenski
31 Terror and Violence 440
Lorne L. Dawson
Index 451
