Studies Of Religion
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The Proper Study Of Religion
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Author : Sam Gill
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-14
The Proper Study Of Religion written by Sam Gill and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-14 with Education categories.
The first generation of the proper academic study of religion might be said to span the half century from 1963 to 2013. Supreme Court Justice Clark's 1963 opinion clarifying that any liberal "education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization" allowed the legal teaching of religion in secular universities. The end of the first generation might be marked by the 2013 retirement of Professor Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-2017) from the University of Chicago where he had taught since 1968. Arguably no scholar has made a greater contribution than did Smith to establishing a proper academic study of religion. In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by creatively engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Their careers coincided with the explosive expansion of the study of religion in secular universities in the US that began in the mid-1960s. Using an engaging narrative style, Gill builds on Smith's work exploring an extensive range of absorbing and foundational topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; the important role of experience, richly understood, both to academic studies of religion and to religions as lived; play, philosophically understood, as a core dynamic of Smith's entire program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the sensory-rich real world of religions; and self-moving as providing a biological and philosophical foundation on which to develop and expand upon a proper academic study of religion. The foregrounding of human self-movement, new to the study of religion, is informed by Gill's experience as a dancer and student of dancing in cultures around the world. This book honors the work of an unforgettable giant of a man while also offering critical assessments and innovative ideas in the effort to advance the remarkable legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith.
Fields Of Faith
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Author : David F. Ford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-17
Fields Of Faith written by David F. Ford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-17 with Education categories.
This 2005 book asks: how will theology and the religions be studied in higher education in the coming century?
Cambridge Studies Of Religion Stage 6 Fourth Edition
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Cambridge Studies Of Religion Stage 6 Fourth Edition written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Introduction To The Study Of Religion
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Author : Hillary P. Rodrigues
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2023-11-07
Introduction To The Study Of Religion written by Hillary P. Rodrigues and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with categories.
The thoroughly updated second edition provides an engaging introduction to the discipline of religious studies. Summary boxes, discussion questions, a glossary, a chronology of key figures and texts and other pedagogic aids help students grasp key concepts.
Failure And Nerve In The Academic Study Of Religion
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Author : William E. Arnal
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-11
Failure And Nerve In The Academic Study Of Religion written by William E. Arnal and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Religion categories.
Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion presents a provocative critique of the unwillingness of modern scholars to publically distinguish research into comparative religion from confessional studies written within denominationally-affiliated institutions. The book offers the 19th Century founders of the study of religion as a bracing corrective to contemporary timidity. The issue was analysed and documented by Wiebe a quarter of a century ago. Here, marking Wiebe's work, a wide range of contributors reassess the methodology and ambition of contemporary religious research. The book argues that conceptualizing religion as part of the world of human action and experience is the first requirement of the study of religion.
Religious Studies
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Author : Gregory D. Alles
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Release Date : 2010
Religious Studies written by Gregory D. Alles and has been published by Taylor & Francis US this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Religions categories.
Drawing on recent developments in the comparative study of religion, this book explores the trends of the past sixty years from a global perspective. Each of the ten chapters covers the study of religion in a different region of the world, from Europe and the Americas to Asia and the Far East. Topics covered include: local background to the study of religions formation of religious studies in the region important thinkers and writings institutions interregional diversity and interregional connections emerging issues. This book is a major contribution to the field of religious studies and a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students.
Theory And Method In Religious Studies
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Author : Frank Whaling
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-10-25
Theory And Method In Religious Studies written by Frank Whaling 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 2012-10-25 with Religion categories.
This paperback edition contains selected articles from the original clothbound editions of Contemporary Approaches to The Study of Religion. Vol I: The Humanities. Vol II: The Social Sciences. (Religion and Reason, 27/28).
Religious Studies
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Author : Walter H. Capps
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 1995
Religious Studies written by Walter H. Capps and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Religion categories.
Since its inception almost 200 years ago, the study of religion has informed, enlightened, provoked, and challenged our notions of humanity's deepest beliefs and longings. Now Walter Capps, nationally recognized for the quality and depth of his teaching, has written the first full-scale introduction to the history and methods of religious studies. To assess the many points of view in this mature but diffuse discipline. Capps uses the idea that four basic of fundamental questions and three enduring interests have given formal structure to the study of religion: the essence of religion; the origin of religion, descriptions of religion; the function of religion, the language of religion, comparisons of religion and, the future of religious studies. In this way Capps relates the chief insights and theories of philosophy, anthropology, phenomenology, sociology, and theology of religion, and spotlights theorists from Immanuel Kant to Mircea Eliade. His valuable text unites in a single narrative and conceptual framework the major methodological proposals for the academic study of religion; treats all the major theorists in their respective disciplines, schools of thought, and intellectual movements; treats the whole discipline as a dynamic and evolving tradition. Religious Studies constitutes not only an erudite introduction to the field, exhibiting vast scholarship and careful assessment, but also a bold synthetic proposal for its future.
The Future Of The Study Of Religion
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Author : Slavica Jakelic
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-08-14
The Future Of The Study Of Religion written by Slavica Jakelic and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Religion categories.
This volume brings together divergent voices in religious and theological studies for a conversation about the proper objects, methods, and goals for the study of religion in the twenty-first century.
The Learned Practice Of Religion In The Modern University
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Author : Donald Wiebe
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-11-14
The Learned Practice Of Religion In The Modern University written by Donald Wiebe and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Religion categories.
In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe - that studies almost always exhibit a religious bias. To explore this issue, Wiebe looks at the religious and moral agendas behind the study of religion, showing that the boundaries between the objective study of religion and religious education as a tool for bettering society have become blurred. As a result, he argues, religious studies departments have fostered an environment where religion has become a learned or scholarly practice, rather than the object of academic scrutiny. This book provides a critical history of the failure of 20th- and 21st-century scholars to follow through on the 19th-century ideal of an objective scientific study of religious thought and behaviour. Although emancipated from direct ecclesiastical control and, to some extent, from sectarian theologizing, Wiebe argues that research and scholarship in the academic department of religious studies has failed to break free from religious constraints. He shows that an objective scientific study of religious thought and practice is not only possible, but the only appropriate approach to the study of religious phenomena.