Religion: Empirical Studies

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-24361-0 (ISBN)

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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 qualitative 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.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	471 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-24361-9 / 1032243619
ISBN-13	978-1-032-24361-0 / 9781032243610
Zustand	Neuware