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1 online resource (viii, 332 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
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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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Whither the study of religion? / Slavica Jakeliʹc and Lori Pearson -- Stubborn persistence of religion: some post-secular reflections / Friedrich Wilhelm Graf -- Stubborn persistence of debates about religion: a response to Friedrich Wilhelm Graf / Peter Berger -- Study of religions in the twentieth century / Hans G. Kippenberg -- 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 -- 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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Religion -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
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Religion -- Study and teaching. |
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Religions -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
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Religions -- Study and teaching. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Jakelic, Slavica.
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Pearson, Lori.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Congress 2000: the Future of the Study of Religion (2000 : Boston, Mass.). Future of the study of religion. Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2004 (DLC) 2003070873 |
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Online version: Congress 2000: the Future of the Study of Religion (2000 : Boston, Mass.). Future of the study of religion. Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2004 (OCoLC)945915678 |
ISBN |
1429408278 (electronic book) |
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9781429408271 (electronic book) |
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9789004123175 (alkaline paper) |
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9004123172 (alkaline paper) |
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9004123172 (alkaline paper) |
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