Description
Book SynopsisA reference and teaching resource for the study of religion in college and university settings. It provides for students and scholars a collection of specially commissioned articles that comprise a comprehensive and critical guide to the ways in which religious artifacts and practices are defined.
Trade Review"The Guide is a truly remarkable text and a must for all students and scholars of religion." --Studies in Religion: Sciences Religieuses 29.3 (2000)
"In the last few years Cassell have published several worthwhile volumes on the study of religion. Guide to the Study of Religion is no exception...For postgraduates and for busy academics bogged down with administration and struggling to keep up with contemporary issues and debates[...]this volume is an extremely helpful and wide-ranging collection." --Themelios
"Thirty-one essays, authored by an impressive array of some of the best, established and newer, scholars of religion. In the sheer volume of the material offered, and in the consistently high quality of most of the essays, the book presents the determined reader with a daunting abundance of riches." --Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
"This is the type of book that I could imagine using at the beginning of a world religions course in order to help students understand how scholars seek to understand religions. Or it might be used in course on research and methods. It is not a theology text per se, but it helps those of us who are theologians understand both our discipline and the location of our discipline in relation to the larger field of religious studies. I recommend it heartily!" -- David C. Ratke, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Currents in Theology and Mission -- David C. Ratke, Lenoir-Rhyne College * Currents in Theology and Mission *
Table of ContentsPart I Descriptions: definition; classification; comparison; interpretation. Part II Explanations: structure; exchange; social formations; rationality; cognition; origin; myth; ritual; gender; sacred; manifestation; world building; body; projection; depravation; stratification; intellect; ethnicity; experience. Part III Locations: modernism; romanticism; nationalism; colonialism; postmodernism; culture; discourse; ideology.
