Theory for religious studies / / William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457273403321
• Autore: Deal William E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-135-88797-7; 9786610225118; 1-280-22511-4; 0-203-34007-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (144 p.)
• Collana: Theory4
• Classificazione: 11.01
• Altri autori (Persone): BealTimothy K <1963-> (Timothy Kandler)
• Disciplina: 200/.71
• Soggetti: Religion - Study and teaching - Methodology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Sigmund Freud -- Karl Marx -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Ferdinand de Saussure -- Louis Althusser -- Mikhail Bakhtin -- Roland Barthes -- Georges Bataille -- Jean Baudrillard -- Walter Benjamin -- Pierre Bourdieu -- Judith Butler -- Hélène Cixous -- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- Jacques Derrida -- Michel Foucault -- Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Luce Irigaray -- Julia Kristeva -- Jacques Lacan -- Henri Lefebvre -- Emmanuel Levinas -- Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Edward W. Said -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Hayden White -- Raymond Williams -- Slavoj Zižek.
• Sommario/riassunto: Theory for Religious Studies presents the key theoretical influences on religious studies since the 1960s - an essential guide to the figures and ideas animating religious studies today. Drawing on thier complementary knowledge of Eastern and Western religious traditions, William Deal and Timothy Beal begin with four foundartional figures - Marx, Nietzsche, Saussure and Freud - and go on to provide guided introductions to Althusser, Bakhtin, Barthes, Bataille, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Butler, Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Foucault, Gadamer, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, Lefebvre,