Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995
Language: English
Published by Brill, 2000
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356pp. Gift inscription to the half-title, clean and sound otherwise. Comprised of the following papers: The role of method and theory in the IAHR / Armin W. Geertz, Russell T. McCutcheon The history of religion and the study of religion in Mexico / Yolotl González Torres Global perspectives on methodology in the study of religion / Armin W. Geertz Political motivations in the development of the academic study of religions in Britain / Terrence Thomas Observations on the scholarly study of religions as pursued in some Muslim countries / Jacques Waardenburg Beyond a god's eyeview: alternative perspectives in the study of religion / Morny Joy Overcoming barriers to a cognitive psychology of religion / Robert N. McCauley Orthosyncretism: an account of melding in religion / Timothy Light Categorizing religion / Robert A. Segal What is it that we call 'religion'?: analyzing the epistemological status of the sacred as a scholarly category in comparative religion / Veikko Anttonen Sacred order / William E. Paden The meaning of experience: theoretical dilemmas in depicting a Peruvian curandera's philosophy of healing / Bonnie Glass-Coffin Power and periphery: studies of gender and religion in Africa / Rosalind I.J. Hackett The formation of gendered world views and gender ideology / Helena Helve Fundamentalism: a western term with consequences / Peter Antes Reflections upon the concept of 'new religious movement' / Ulrich Berner Of religious syncretism, comparative religion and spiritual quests / Luther H. Martin The definition of religion: an analytical or hermeneutical task? / Gary Lease Taming ethnocentrism and trans-cultural understandings / Russell T. McCutcheon Prototypes: Western or cross-cultural? / William E. Paden Problems with the family resemblance approach to conceptualizing religion / Don Wiebe Conceptualizing religion: responses / Benson Saler.…
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- Title
- Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995
- Author
- Geertz, Armin; Russell McCutcheon eds
- Publisher
- Brill
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- VERY GOOD
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9004118772
- ISBN 13
- 9789004118775
- Item weight
- 32 ounces
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- Religion
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About the Author
Russell T. McCutcheon is Associate Professor of Modern Religious Thought at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. He is the author of Manufacturing Religion (Oxford University Press, 1997), Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (State University of New York Press), and is the co-editor of both the Guide to the Study of Religion (Cassell, 2000) and Brill’s journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.
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