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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Cambridge ; New York :
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2012.
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| 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.