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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Cambridge companion to religious studies
  name:
    name part: Orsi, Robert A.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 428 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities. A group of distinguished scholars takes up some of the most pressing theoretical questions in the field. What is a "religious tradition"? How are religious texts read? What takes place when a religious practitioner stands before a representation of gods or goddesses, ghosts, ancestors, saints, and other special beings? What roles is religion playing in contemporary global society? The volume emphasizes religion as a lived practice, stressing that people have used and continue to use religious media to engage the circumstances of their lives. This underlying conviction provides a realistic perspective on religion, and the volume's essays engage with real-world religious practices. The volume's essays should prove valuable and interesting to a broad audience, including scholars in the humanities and social sciences and a general readership, as well as students of religious studies"--
  table of contents: On sympathy, suspicion, and studying religion: historical reflections on a doubled inheritance / Leigh E. Schmidt -- Thinking about religion, belief and politics / Talal Asad -- Special things as building blocks of religions / Ann Taves -- The problem of the holy / Robert A. Orsi -- Social order or social chaos / Michael J. Puett -- Tradition: the power of constraint / Michael L. Satlow -- The text and the world / Anne M. Blackburn -- On the role of normativity in religious studies / Thomas A. Lewis -- Translation / Martin Kavka -- Material religion / Matthew Engelke -- Theology and the study of religion: a relationship / Christine Helmer -- Buddhism and violence / Bernard Faure -- Practicing religions / Courtney Bender -- The look of the sacred / David Morgan -- Reforming culture: law and religion today / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- Sexing religion / R. Marie Griffith -- Constituting ethical subjectivities / Leela Prasad -- Neo-Pentecostalism and globalization / Marla Frederick -- Religious criticism, secular critique, and the 'critical study of religion': lessons from the study of Islam Noah Salomon and / Jeremy F. Walton.
  note: edited by Robert A. Orsi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / General
  classification: BL41 .C34 2012
  classification: 200
  classification: REL000000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge companions to religion
  identifier: 9780521883917 (hardback)
  identifier: 0521883911 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780521710145 (paperback)
  identifier: 0521710146 (paperback)
  identifier: 2011010731
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110309
    record change date: 20151202151341.0
    record identifier: in00002691985