Religion: Empirical Studies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sutcliffe, Steven J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Treating 'religion' as a fully social, cultural, historical and material field of practice, this book presents a series of debates and positions on the nature and purpose of the 'Study of Religions', or 'Religious Studies'. Offering an introductory guide to this influential, and politically relevant, academic field, the contributors illustrate the diversity and theoretical viability of empirical methodologies in the study of religions. The historical and cultural circumstances attending the emergence, defence and future prospects of Religious Studies are documented, drawing on theoretical material and case studies prepared within the context of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), and making frequent reference to wider European, North American and other international debates and critiques.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351904827
• Artikelnr.: 47955034

Autorenporträt

Dr Steven Sutcliffe was recently Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Stirling, UK, and has taught in Religious Studies at the University of Sunderland and the Open University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Peggy Morgan; Introduction: Qualitative empirical methodologies: an inductive argument
Steven J. Sutcliffe. Part One Category And Method: Phenomenology
fieldwork and folk religion
Marion Bowman; Media
meaning and method in the study of religion
Chris Arthur; How to study religious experience in the traditions
Peter Antes; 'The Sacred' as a viable concept in the contemporary study of religions
Terence Thomas; The sense and nonsense of 'community': a consideration of contemporary debates about community and culture by a scholar of religion
Kim Knott; Chosen people: the concept of diaspora in the modern world
Gerrie ter Haar; Study of Religions: The New Queen of the Sciences?
Brian Bocking. Part Two Case Studies: Religious Experience in Early Buddhism?
Richard Gombrich; Women and goddesses in the Celtic world
Miranda Aldhouse-Green; Religion
gender and Dharma: the case of the widow-Asceti
Julia Leslie; A Buddhist-Christian encounter in Sri Lanka: the Panadura Vada
Ria Kloppenborg; Religion and community in indigenous contexts
Armin W. Geertz; African spirituality
religion and innovation
Elizabeth Amoah; Unificationism: a study in religious syncretism
George D. Chryssides; Multiculturalism
Muslims and the British state
Tariq Modood. Afterword: separating religion from the 'sacred': methodological Agnosticism and the future of religious studies
James L. Cox. Index.