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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782768203321

Titolo

New approaches to the study of religion . Volume 2 Textual, comparative, sociological, and cognitive approaches / / edited by Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

1-281-99945-8

9786611999452

3-11-021171-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 p.)

Collana

Religion and reason ; ; v. 43

Classificazione

MS 6550

Altri autori (Persone)

AntesPeter <1942->

GeertzArmin W. <1948->

WarneR. R <1952-> (Randi Ruth)

Disciplina

200

Soggetti

Religion

Religions - Study and teaching - History - 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Section 4. Textual approaches ; New approaches to the problem of translation in the study of religion / Alan Williams -- The use of electronic media in the study of sacred texts / Gordon D. Newby -- New approaches: ; Literary theory / Dawne McCance.

; Section 5. Comparative approaches ; Comparison in the study of religion / William E. Paden -- New approaches to the study of syncretism / Luther H. Martin and Anita Maria Leopold -- Performance theory and the study of ritual / Ronald L. Grimes -- New approaches to the study of religious dance / Helga Barbara Gundlach -- Human rights: ; An important and challenging new field for the study of religion / Rosalind I.J. Hackett.

; Section 6. Social sciences ; A survey of advances in the sociology of religion (1980-2000) / Liliane Voyé -- Assessing secularization theory / Karel Dobbelaere -- Urbanization and religion / Robert Kisala -- Religion and diaspora / Steven Vertovec -- Approaches to the study of religion in the media / Alf G. Linderman -- Beyond "Church and State":



; Advances in the study of religion and law / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.

; Section 7. Cognition and cross-cultural psychology ; Cognitive approaches to the study of religion / Armin W. Geertz -- The naturalness of religious concepts: ; An emerging cognitive science of religion / Justin L. Barrett -- Psychoanalyzing prehistory: ; Struggling with the unrecorded past / David A. Warburton -- ; Conclusion / Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne.