Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Contributors viii
About the Editors x
Introduction xi
Robert A. Segal
Part I Approaches 1
1 Anthropology of Religion 3
Fiona Bowie
2 Economics of Religion 25
Rodney Stark
3 Literature and Religion 44
Eric Ziolkowski
4 Phenomenology of Religion 65
Thomas Ryba
5 Philosophy of Religion 93
Charles Taliaferro
6 Psychology of Religion 113
Roderick Main
7 Sociology of Religion 135
Titus Hjelm
8 Theology 152
Ian S. Markham
Part II T opics 169
9 Body 171
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg
10 Cognitive Science 184
Jesper Sorensen
11 Comparative Method 197
Paul Roscoe
12 Death and Afterlife 209
Douglas J. Davies
13 Emotion 219
Tony Milligan
14 Esotericism 229
Karl Baier
15 Ethics 241
G. Scott Davis
16 Functionalism 253
Robert A. Segal
17 Fundamentalism 265
Henry Munson
18 Globalization 277
Michael Wilkinson
19 History 289
Robert A. Yelle
20 Law 302
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
21 Magic 315
Kocku von Stuckrad
22 Modernism and Postmodernism 325
Paul-Francois Tremlett
23 Music 335
Guy L. Beck
24 Myth 348
Robert A. Segal
25 Nationalism 361
Mark Juergensmeyer
26 Pilgrimage 371
Simon Coleman
27 Ritual 382
Part I by Catherine Bell -- Part II by Jens Kreinath
28 Science 400
Ralph O'Connor
29 Secularization 414
Steve Bruce
30 Sex and Gender 429
Ivan Strenski
31 Terror and Violence 440
Lorne L. Dawson
Index 451
