The Blackwell companion to the study of religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert A. Segal |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (491 p.) |
Disciplina |
200/.7
200 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SegalRobert Alan |
Collana | Blackwell companions to religion |
Soggetto topico | Religion |
ISBN |
1-78034-569-0
1-280-74272-0 9786610742721 0-470-70604-X 1-4051-6874-9 1-4051-5465-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Anthropology of religion / Fiona Bowie -- The comparative method / Paul Roscoe -- An economics of religion / Rodney Stark -- Literature and religion / Stephen Prickett -- Phenomenology of religion / Thomas Ryba -- Philosophy of religion / Charles Taliaferro -- Psychology of religion / Roderick Main -- Sociology of religion / Grace Davie -- Theology / Ian Markham -- Body / Richard Roberts -- Death/afterlife / Douglas J. Davies -- Ethics / G. Scott Davis -- Fundamentalism / Henry Munson -- Heaven and hell / Jeffrey Burton Russell -- Holy men/holy women / Lawrence S. Cunningham -- Magic / Gustavo Benavides -- Modernity and postmodernity / Colin Campbell -- Mysticism / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Myth / Robert Segal -- Nationalism and religion / Mark Juergensmeyer -- New religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson -- Pilgrimage / Simon Coleman -- Ritual / Catherine Bell -- Secularization / Steve Bruce. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910270894103321 |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 | ||
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The Blackwell companion to the study of religion / / edited by Robert A. Segal |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (491 p.) |
Disciplina |
200/.7
200 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SegalRobert Alan |
Collana | Blackwell companions to religion |
Soggetto topico | Religion |
ISBN |
1-78034-569-0
1-280-74272-0 9786610742721 0-470-70604-X 1-4051-6874-9 1-4051-5465-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Anthropology of religion / Fiona Bowie -- The comparative method / Paul Roscoe -- An economics of religion / Rodney Stark -- Literature and religion / Stephen Prickett -- Phenomenology of religion / Thomas Ryba -- Philosophy of religion / Charles Taliaferro -- Psychology of religion / Roderick Main -- Sociology of religion / Grace Davie -- Theology / Ian Markham -- Body / Richard Roberts -- Death/afterlife / Douglas J. Davies -- Ethics / G. Scott Davis -- Fundamentalism / Henry Munson -- Heaven and hell / Jeffrey Burton Russell -- Holy men/holy women / Lawrence S. Cunningham -- Magic / Gustavo Benavides -- Modernity and postmodernity / Colin Campbell -- Mysticism / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Myth / Robert Segal -- Nationalism and religion / Mark Juergensmeyer -- New religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson -- Pilgrimage / Simon Coleman -- Ritual / Catherine Bell -- Secularization / Steve Bruce. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820004903321 |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 | ||
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The Wiley Blackwell companion to the study of religion / / edited by Robert A. Segal and Nickolas P. Roubekas |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley Blackwell, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 200 |
Collana | Wiley Blackwell companions to religion |
Soggetto topico | Religion |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-119-09278-7
1-119-09276-0 1-119-09279-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- Part I Approaches -- CHAPTER 1 Anthropology of Religion -- Definitions and Perspectives -- The Origins of Religion -- Religious Experience -- Modes of Thought -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 2 Economics of Religion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 3 Literature and Religion -- Origins of the Approach -- Myth Criticism -- From Theology and Literature to Religion and Literature -- Subversion of the Concepts of "Religion" and "Literature" -- Institutional Developments and Global Spread -- Future Directions -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 4 Phenomenology of Religion -- What "Phenomenology" Means -- How Phenomenology Generally Proceeds -- Philosophical Phenomenology Provides One of the Theoretical Frames for Religious Phenomenology -- Pre-Husserlian Philosophical Phenomenology -- The Philosophical Understanding of Phenomena -- The Philosophical Understanding of "Phenomenology" -- The Place of Phenomenology Within the Sciences -- Husserlian Phenomenology -- Phenomena in Husserlian Phenomenology -- Consciousness as Object-Constituting -- The Steps in the Husserlian Phenomenological Technique -- A Description of Philosophical Phenomenology -- Phenomenology of religion -- Chantepie's religious phenomenology -- Tiele's religious phenomenology -- Kristensen's religious phenomenology -- Van der Leeuw's religious phenomenology -- A Description of Religious Phenomenology -- Recent Critiques of Phenomenology -- Critiques of philosophical phenomenology -- Critiques of religious phenomenology -- Evaluation of the Criticisms of Philosophical and Religious Phenomenology -- Prospects for the Phenomenology of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 5 Philosophy of Religion -- The Meaning of Religious Beliefs and Practices -- Debate about the Coherence of Theism.
Eternity -- The Goodness of God -- Arguments For and Against God's Existence -- Theistic arguments -- The problem of evil -- Religious Pluralism -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 6 Psychology of Religion -- The Beginnings of Psychology of Religion -- Hall, Leuba, and Starbuck -- James and Pratt -- Depth Psychological Approaches -- Janet and Flournoy -- Freud -- Jung -- Other psychoanalytic contributions: Winnicott, Kohut, Erikson -- Empirical Approaches -- Methodology -- Religious phenomena -- Origins of religion -- Effects of religion -- Evaluation of the empirical approach -- Religion and Psychology -- Theology, psychology, and psychotherapy -- Religious and anti‐religious agendas -- Humanistic and transpersonal psychology -- Psychology and comparativist approaches to religion -- Psychology as religion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 7 Sociology of Religion -- Three Approaches -- Religion and Social Change -- Secularization -- Desecularization and post-secularity -- Supply-side theories of religion -- Individualization and spirituality -- Globalization -- Current Directions -- Public religion -- Mediatization -- Lived religion -- Non‐religion -- Intersectionality -- Doing Sociology of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 8 Theology -- The Word "Theology" in Use -- Sources for Systematic Theology -- Modernity and Theology -- Future Directions in Theology -- Bibliography -- Part II Topics -- CHAPTER 9 Body -- Mind-Body Dualism -- The Interdisciplinarity of Religious Studies and the Category of the Body -- Representations of the Human and the Divine Body in Western and Asian Sacred Texts -- Divine Love and the Body -- The Ritual Body -- Purity and the Body -- The Body in Health and Healing -- Gendered and Sexualized Bodies in Religion -- The Modified Body -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 10 Cognitive Science -- Grand Explanations. Cognitive Assumptions -- Religious Ideas -- Religious Behavior -- Take It To The Lab? -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 11 Comparative Method -- The Endless Debate: Comparison in the Social Sciences -- Comparison and the Mind-World Interface in Anthropology -- Comparativism in Religious Studies -- The Comparative Critique Redux -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 12 Death and Afterlife -- Theoretical Approaches -- Religious Perspectives -- Secular Perspectives -- Ecological Death -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 13 Emotion -- The Concept of Emotion -- Valuing, Acting, and Responding -- Two Cautionary Notes -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 14 Esotericism -- A Look at the Historical Semantics -- The "Occult Sciences" Across Cultural and Geographical Borders -- The Social and Religious Formation of Secrecy and the Claim to Higher Knowledge -- Esotericism as the Core of All Religion -- The Faivre/Hanegraaff Paradigm: Western Esotericism as an Umbrella Term for Rejected Historical Currents and as Form of Thought -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 15 Ethics -- Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion -- A Typology of Ethics -- Thomas Aquinas: An Example of Methodological Pluralism -- Religion and Moral Decisions -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 16 Functionalism -- History of Functionalism -- Hempel's Attack on Functionalism -- The Response to Hempel from Religious Studies -- The Response to Hempel from Anthropologists -- The Response to Hempel by Philosophers -- Cummins' Functionalism Applied to Explanations of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 17 Fundamentalism -- Common Criticisms -- The Selectively Literal Interpretation of Sacred Texts -- Christian Fundamentalism -- Jewish Fundamentalism -- The Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) of Eastern European Origin -- The Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) of Middle Eastern Origin -- Religious Zionism -- Islamic Fundamentalism. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 18 Globalization -- Theories of Globalization -- Public Religion and Societal Engagement -- Migration, Transnationalism, and Transplanting Tradition -- Religious Diversity, Pluralism, and Multiculturalism -- Missionary Movements and Worldwide Expansion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 19 History -- Introduction -- Evolutionary and developmental histories of religion(s) -- Religious views of history and temporality -- Secularization and disenchantment as historical processes and narratives -- Evolutionary and Developmental Histories of Religion(s) -- Religious Views of History and Temporality -- Secularization and Disenchantment as Historical Processes and Narratives -- Theories of secularization and enlightenment -- The Löwith-Blumenberg debate and its aftermath -- Christian origins of the idea of disenchantment -- Note -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 20 Law -- Modern Law -- Law and Religion -- Religious Law -- International Law -- The Study of Law -- Images of Justice -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 21 Magic -- Thwarting Magic in Modern Theories -- Magic and Religion -- Passive submission versus active control -- Social benefit versus anti-social implications -- Magic and Science -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 22 Modernism and Postmodernism -- Modernism -- Postmodernism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 23 Music -- Music and Religious Studies -- Social Sciences and Humanities -- Liturgical Studies -- Cognitive Studies -- Musicology of Religion -- Resources and Current Outlook -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 24 Myth -- Myth as the Primitive Counterpart to Science: Tylor and Frazer -- Myth as Other Than an Explanation of the Physical World: Malinowski and Eliade -- Myth as Other Than Literal in Meaning: Bultmann and Jonas -- Myth as Both Other Than Explanatory and Other Than Literal: Freud and Jung. Myth as a Seeming Revival of Tylor and Frazer: Boyer, Burkert, and Girard -- Myth as Again Primitive Science: Lévi‐Strauss -- Myth as Again about the External World: Gaia -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 25 Nationalism -- The Assault on Secular Nationalism -- Religion in Support of New Nationalisms -- The Global Agenda of Religious Nationalism -- The Future of Religious Nationalism -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 26 Pilgrimage -- Pilgrimage Defined -- Pilgrimage Lost -- Pilgrimage Regained -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 27 Ritual -- General Overview -- Models -- Recent Formulations -- The Contemporary Ritual Scene -- Bibliography -- Part II by Jens Kreinath: Recent Trends -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 28 Science -- Moving Beyond the Soap Opera: Three Episodes from the Christian West -- "Conflict" in Context -- The Plurality of Sciences and Religions -- Varieties of Scientific and Religious Experience -- Lumpers, Splitters, and Marriage -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 29 Secularization -- Understanding Secularization -- Monotheism (R1) -- The Protestant Ethic (E1) -- Structural Differentiation (S2) -- Social Differentiation (S1) -- Individualism (RO1) -- Societalization -- Schism and Sect Formation (RO3) -- Social and Cultural Diversity (S3) -- Compartmentalization and Privatization (S6) -- The Secular State and Liberal Democracy (P1) -- The Moderation of Sects and Churches (RO5) -- Economic Growth (E3) -- Science (R3) and Technology (R4) -- Technological Consciousness (CS1) -- Relativism (CS2) -- Retarding Tendencies -- Cultural Transition -- Cultural Defense -- The Rational Choice Alternative -- The Irreversibility of Secularization -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 30 Sex and Gender -- "Religion, We Have a Problem . . ." -- In the Beginning. . . -- Counter-cultural, Feminist Studies of Women in Religion -- A History of Asymmetry -- A Rainbow in Sexual Space. And Don't Confuse Sex with Sexuality. |
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The Wiley Blackwell companion to the study of religion / / edited by Robert A. Segal and Nickolas P. Roubekas |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley Blackwell, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 200 |
Collana | Wiley Blackwell companions to religion |
Soggetto topico |
Religion
Religion - Study and teaching Religion - Research Religion - Étude et enseignement Religion - Recherche religion (discipline) |
ISBN |
1-119-09278-7
1-119-09276-0 1-119-09279-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- Part I Approaches -- CHAPTER 1 Anthropology of Religion -- Definitions and Perspectives -- The Origins of Religion -- Religious Experience -- Modes of Thought -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 2 Economics of Religion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 3 Literature and Religion -- Origins of the Approach -- Myth Criticism -- From Theology and Literature to Religion and Literature -- Subversion of the Concepts of "Religion" and "Literature" -- Institutional Developments and Global Spread -- Future Directions -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 4 Phenomenology of Religion -- What "Phenomenology" Means -- How Phenomenology Generally Proceeds -- Philosophical Phenomenology Provides One of the Theoretical Frames for Religious Phenomenology -- Pre-Husserlian Philosophical Phenomenology -- The Philosophical Understanding of Phenomena -- The Philosophical Understanding of "Phenomenology" -- The Place of Phenomenology Within the Sciences -- Husserlian Phenomenology -- Phenomena in Husserlian Phenomenology -- Consciousness as Object-Constituting -- The Steps in the Husserlian Phenomenological Technique -- A Description of Philosophical Phenomenology -- Phenomenology of religion -- Chantepie's religious phenomenology -- Tiele's religious phenomenology -- Kristensen's religious phenomenology -- Van der Leeuw's religious phenomenology -- A Description of Religious Phenomenology -- Recent Critiques of Phenomenology -- Critiques of philosophical phenomenology -- Critiques of religious phenomenology -- Evaluation of the Criticisms of Philosophical and Religious Phenomenology -- Prospects for the Phenomenology of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 5 Philosophy of Religion -- The Meaning of Religious Beliefs and Practices -- Debate about the Coherence of Theism.
Eternity -- The Goodness of God -- Arguments For and Against God's Existence -- Theistic arguments -- The problem of evil -- Religious Pluralism -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 6 Psychology of Religion -- The Beginnings of Psychology of Religion -- Hall, Leuba, and Starbuck -- James and Pratt -- Depth Psychological Approaches -- Janet and Flournoy -- Freud -- Jung -- Other psychoanalytic contributions: Winnicott, Kohut, Erikson -- Empirical Approaches -- Methodology -- Religious phenomena -- Origins of religion -- Effects of religion -- Evaluation of the empirical approach -- Religion and Psychology -- Theology, psychology, and psychotherapy -- Religious and anti‐religious agendas -- Humanistic and transpersonal psychology -- Psychology and comparativist approaches to religion -- Psychology as religion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 7 Sociology of Religion -- Three Approaches -- Religion and Social Change -- Secularization -- Desecularization and post-secularity -- Supply-side theories of religion -- Individualization and spirituality -- Globalization -- Current Directions -- Public religion -- Mediatization -- Lived religion -- Non‐religion -- Intersectionality -- Doing Sociology of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 8 Theology -- The Word "Theology" in Use -- Sources for Systematic Theology -- Modernity and Theology -- Future Directions in Theology -- Bibliography -- Part II Topics -- CHAPTER 9 Body -- Mind-Body Dualism -- The Interdisciplinarity of Religious Studies and the Category of the Body -- Representations of the Human and the Divine Body in Western and Asian Sacred Texts -- Divine Love and the Body -- The Ritual Body -- Purity and the Body -- The Body in Health and Healing -- Gendered and Sexualized Bodies in Religion -- The Modified Body -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 10 Cognitive Science -- Grand Explanations. Cognitive Assumptions -- Religious Ideas -- Religious Behavior -- Take It To The Lab? -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 11 Comparative Method -- The Endless Debate: Comparison in the Social Sciences -- Comparison and the Mind-World Interface in Anthropology -- Comparativism in Religious Studies -- The Comparative Critique Redux -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 12 Death and Afterlife -- Theoretical Approaches -- Religious Perspectives -- Secular Perspectives -- Ecological Death -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 13 Emotion -- The Concept of Emotion -- Valuing, Acting, and Responding -- Two Cautionary Notes -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 14 Esotericism -- A Look at the Historical Semantics -- The "Occult Sciences" Across Cultural and Geographical Borders -- The Social and Religious Formation of Secrecy and the Claim to Higher Knowledge -- Esotericism as the Core of All Religion -- The Faivre/Hanegraaff Paradigm: Western Esotericism as an Umbrella Term for Rejected Historical Currents and as Form of Thought -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 15 Ethics -- Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion -- A Typology of Ethics -- Thomas Aquinas: An Example of Methodological Pluralism -- Religion and Moral Decisions -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 16 Functionalism -- History of Functionalism -- Hempel's Attack on Functionalism -- The Response to Hempel from Religious Studies -- The Response to Hempel from Anthropologists -- The Response to Hempel by Philosophers -- Cummins' Functionalism Applied to Explanations of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 17 Fundamentalism -- Common Criticisms -- The Selectively Literal Interpretation of Sacred Texts -- Christian Fundamentalism -- Jewish Fundamentalism -- The Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) of Eastern European Origin -- The Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) of Middle Eastern Origin -- Religious Zionism -- Islamic Fundamentalism. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 18 Globalization -- Theories of Globalization -- Public Religion and Societal Engagement -- Migration, Transnationalism, and Transplanting Tradition -- Religious Diversity, Pluralism, and Multiculturalism -- Missionary Movements and Worldwide Expansion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 19 History -- Introduction -- Evolutionary and developmental histories of religion(s) -- Religious views of history and temporality -- Secularization and disenchantment as historical processes and narratives -- Evolutionary and Developmental Histories of Religion(s) -- Religious Views of History and Temporality -- Secularization and Disenchantment as Historical Processes and Narratives -- Theories of secularization and enlightenment -- The Löwith-Blumenberg debate and its aftermath -- Christian origins of the idea of disenchantment -- Note -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 20 Law -- Modern Law -- Law and Religion -- Religious Law -- International Law -- The Study of Law -- Images of Justice -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 21 Magic -- Thwarting Magic in Modern Theories -- Magic and Religion -- Passive submission versus active control -- Social benefit versus anti-social implications -- Magic and Science -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 22 Modernism and Postmodernism -- Modernism -- Postmodernism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 23 Music -- Music and Religious Studies -- Social Sciences and Humanities -- Liturgical Studies -- Cognitive Studies -- Musicology of Religion -- Resources and Current Outlook -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 24 Myth -- Myth as the Primitive Counterpart to Science: Tylor and Frazer -- Myth as Other Than an Explanation of the Physical World: Malinowski and Eliade -- Myth as Other Than Literal in Meaning: Bultmann and Jonas -- Myth as Both Other Than Explanatory and Other Than Literal: Freud and Jung. Myth as a Seeming Revival of Tylor and Frazer: Boyer, Burkert, and Girard -- Myth as Again Primitive Science: Lévi‐Strauss -- Myth as Again about the External World: Gaia -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 25 Nationalism -- The Assault on Secular Nationalism -- Religion in Support of New Nationalisms -- The Global Agenda of Religious Nationalism -- The Future of Religious Nationalism -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 26 Pilgrimage -- Pilgrimage Defined -- Pilgrimage Lost -- Pilgrimage Regained -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 27 Ritual -- General Overview -- Models -- Recent Formulations -- The Contemporary Ritual Scene -- Bibliography -- Part II by Jens Kreinath: Recent Trends -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 28 Science -- Moving Beyond the Soap Opera: Three Episodes from the Christian West -- "Conflict" in Context -- The Plurality of Sciences and Religions -- Varieties of Scientific and Religious Experience -- Lumpers, Splitters, and Marriage -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 29 Secularization -- Understanding Secularization -- Monotheism (R1) -- The Protestant Ethic (E1) -- Structural Differentiation (S2) -- Social Differentiation (S1) -- Individualism (RO1) -- Societalization -- Schism and Sect Formation (RO3) -- Social and Cultural Diversity (S3) -- Compartmentalization and Privatization (S6) -- The Secular State and Liberal Democracy (P1) -- The Moderation of Sects and Churches (RO5) -- Economic Growth (E3) -- Science (R3) and Technology (R4) -- Technological Consciousness (CS1) -- Relativism (CS2) -- Retarding Tendencies -- Cultural Transition -- Cultural Defense -- The Rational Choice Alternative -- The Irreversibility of Secularization -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 30 Sex and Gender -- "Religion, We Have a Problem . . ." -- In the Beginning. . . -- Counter-cultural, Feminist Studies of Women in Religion -- A History of Asymmetry -- A Rainbow in Sexual Space. And Don't Confuse Sex with Sexuality. |
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