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Conceptualizing Religion
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Author : Benson Saler
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2000
Conceptualizing Religion written by Benson Saler and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Law categories.
How might we transform a folk category - in this case religion - into a analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In this volume, the author addresses that question. He critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. He argues that the concept of family resemblances, as that concept has been refined and extended in prototype theory in the contemporary cognitive sciences, is the most plausible analytical strategy for resolving the central problem of the book. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of "more or less" rather than a matter of "yes or no," and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.
Conceptualizing Religion
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Author : Saler
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1993-03-01
Conceptualizing Religion written by Saler and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-01 with Religion categories.
How might we transform a folk category — in this case, religion — into an analytical category suitable for cross-cultural research? In addressing that question, this book critically explores various approaches to the problem of conceptualizing religion for scholarly purposes, particularly with respect to certain disciplinary interests of anthropologists. The author argues that the most plausible analytical strategy can be based on the idea of family resemblances, especially as that idea has been used and developed in contemporary prototype theory. In the solution proposed, religion is conceptualized as an affair of 'more or less' rather than a matter of 'yes or no,' and no sharp line is drawn between religion and non-religion.
Conceptualizing Religion
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Author : Benson Saler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Conceptualizing Religion written by Benson Saler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Ethnology categories.
Mu Ammad Abduh And His Interlocutors Conceptualizing Religion In A Globalizing World
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Author : Ammeke Kateman
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Mu Ammad Abduh And His Interlocutors Conceptualizing Religion In A Globalizing World written by Ammeke Kateman and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Religion categories.
In Muḥammad ʿAbduh and his Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World, Ammeke Kateman offers an account of Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Islamic Reformism in a globalizing and diverse world.
Perspectives On Method And Theory In The Study Of Religion
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Author : Armin Geertz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2000-04-20
Perspectives On Method And Theory In The Study Of Religion written by Armin Geertz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-20 with Religion categories.
This volume collects select papers on methodology in the study of religion that were originally presented at the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, held in Mexico City in 1995. Granted the status of adjunct proceedings for the Congress, the collection opens with the editors’ detailed survey of the longstanding importance of discussions on methodology within the IAHR. The twenty-one essays which follow examine religion and the history of the study of religion within a variety of theoretical contexts. The essays are organized in terms of three general sub-divisions: general issues in methodology (from the impact of both postmodernism and reflexive anthropology on the study of religion to the politics of religious studies as practiced in different national settings); reflections on the categories commonly employed by scholars working in the field (e.g., “religion,” “syncretism,” “gender,” “New Religious Movements,” “sacred,” “power,” “experience,” etc.), and finally, the collection ends with a review symposium on one of the more sophisticated recent treatments of the problem of defining religion, Benson Saler’s Conceptualizing Religion (Brill, 1993). Despite carrying out their work in a variety of settings—from Denmark and Finland, to Britain, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, the USA, and Mexico—the authors all model a similar approach to studying religion as but one instance of human culture.
Perspectives On Method And Theory In The Study Of Religion
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Author : International Association for the History of Religions. Congress
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2000
Perspectives On Method And Theory In The Study Of Religion written by International Association for the History of Religions. Congress and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Religion categories.
This volume is the adjunct proceedings on methodology from the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, held in Mexico City in 1995. Taken together, the essays present a thorough and coherent perspective on studying religion as an item of human culture.
Understanding Religion
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Author : Benson Saler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-08-17
Understanding Religion written by Benson Saler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-17 with Philosophy categories.
This volume consists of 12 essays published by the author between the years 1997-2007, a thirteenth paper read at a conference in 2006, and a long introduction prepared specifically for the collection. All of the essays deal with epistemological issues attendant on conceptualizing and defining religion, understanding what is likely to be involved in studying and discussing beliefs, and attempting to explain religion and religions by drawing on the contemporary cognitive and evolutionary sciences. The problem of how best to understand and represent the cultural sensitivities of others is addressed by considering the works of three predecessors, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and A. Irving Hallowell.
Law Religion And Freedom
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Author : W. Cole Durham, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-02-22
Law Religion And Freedom written by W. Cole Durham, Jr. and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-22 with Law categories.
This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings. The volume brings together chapters by leading experts from law, religious studies, and international relations, who provide perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic. At a time when the polarization of ‘culture wars’ is aggravating tensions between secular and religious views about accommodating the conscientious claims of individuals and groups, and when the right to freedom of religion itself is facing misunderstanding and erosion, the work provides welcome clarity and depth. Some chapters adopt a primarily conceptual and historical approach; others analyze particular difficulties or conflicts that have emerged in European and American jurisdictions, along with concrete applications and recommendations for the future. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policy-makers with an interest in law, religion, and human rights.
Theories Of Religion
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Author : Seth Daniel Kunin
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2006
Theories Of Religion written by Seth Daniel Kunin and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Religion categories.
This book provides a comprehensive selection of readings that relate to and explore the definition of religion. The texts come from a wide range of approaches, unified both by the questions they are addressing and their broadly social scientific perspective. The disciplines covered include anthropology, phenomenology, psychology and sociology. The editors have also included some key texts relating to the feminist approach to and critique of religion. The first section of the book includes some of the foundational texts, such as materials by Marx, Freud, and Durkheim. The remaining sections look at more recent discussions of the issues from the different disciplinary perspectives. Each reading is introduced by a biographical sketch of the author. The book also includes introductory discussions to each section that both raise the key issues developed in a particular discipline and address the disciplinary approaches from a more critical stance. Theories of Religion: A Reader is an invaluable critical resource, accessible to a broad audience as well as students of theology and religious studies.
Understanding Religion
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Author : Benson Saler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009
Understanding Religion written by Benson Saler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philosophy categories.
Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.