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This book is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion.
Sommario
Introduction: A User's Guide; 1. Affect; 2. Authenticity; 3. Authority; 4. Belief; 5. Canon; 6. Classification; 7. Cognition; 8. Comparison; 9. Critical; 10. Culture; 11. Definition; 12. Description; 13. Diaspora; 14. Environment; 15. Essence; 16. Experience; 17. Explanation; 18. Faith; 19. Function; 20. Gender; 21. History; 22. Identity; 23. Ideology; 24. Indigeneity; 25. Interpretation; 26. Law; 27. Lived Religion; 28. Material Religion; 29. Method; 30. Methodological Agnosticism; 31. Origin; 32. Orthodoxy; 33. Phenomenology; 34. Pluralism; 35. Politics; 36. Power; 37. Practice; 38. Primitive; 39. Race; 40. Redescription; 41. Religion; 42. Religious Literacy; 43. Sacred/Profane; 44. Secular; 45. Society; 46. Status; 47. Text; 48. Theory; 49. World Religions; 50. Worldview; Appendix: A Word on Etymologies; Index
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Aaron W. Hughes is the Philip S. Bernstein Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester, USA.
Russell T. McCutcheon is University Research Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, USA.
Riassunto
This book is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion.
