The Cambridge companion to religious studies /

"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...

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Other Authors: Orsi, Robert A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge companions to religion.
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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.