Interpretive Theories Of Religion

Author : Donald A. Crosby
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110823357
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpretive Theories of Religion written by Donald A. Crosby and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Author : Linda Woodhead
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631210740
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Modern Times written by Linda Woodhead and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together over 300 important readings on religion in modern times, offering a new framework and language for making sense of religion today.

Author : Daniel L. Pals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eight Theories of Religion written by Daniel L. Pals and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call "religious" so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society? Revised and updated in this second edition, Eight Theories of Religion considers how these fundamental questions have engaged the most important thinkers of the modern era. Accessible, systematic, and succinct, the text examines the classic interpretations of religion advanced by theorists who have left a major imprint on the intellectual culture of the twentieth century. The second edition features a new chapter on Max Weber, a revised introduction, and a revised, expanded conclusion that traces the paths of further inquiry and interpretation traveled by theorists in the most recent decades. Eight Theories of Religion, Second Edition, begins with Edward Burnett Tylor and James Frazer--two Victorian pioneers in anthropology and the comparative study of religion. It then considers the great "reductionist" approaches of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx, all of whom have exercised wide influence up to the present day. The discussion goes on to examine the leading challenges to reductionism as articulated by sociologist Max Weber (new to this edition) and Romanian-American comparativist Mircea Eliade. Finally, it explores the newer methods and ideas arising from the African field studies of ethnographer E. E. Evans-Pritchard and the interpretive anthropology of Clifford Geertz. Each chapter offers biographical background, theoretical exposition, conceptual analysis, and critical assessment. This common format allows for close comparison and careful evaluation throughout. Ideal for use as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the central text in sociology of religion and courses centered on the explanation and interpretation of religion, Eight Theories of Religion, Second Edition, offers an illuminating treatment of this controversial and fascinating subject.

Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 : 9780340688700
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Religious Education written by Robert Jackson and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines fundamental issues for religious education, such as how far it is possible to understand someone else's religious position and how religions should be interpreted in the classroom. It gives an overview of some important developments in religious education since the 1970s and makes suggestions about how we should interpret religion.

Author : Cécile Laborde
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976266
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalism’s Religion written by Cécile Laborde and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cécile Laborde argues that religion is more than a statement of belief or a moral code. It refers to comprehensive ways of life, theories of justice, modes of association, and vulnerable collective identities. By disaggregating these dimensions, she addresses questions about whether Western secularism and religion can be applied more universally.

Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134041489
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Theories of Religion written by Michael Stausberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in theories of religion has never been greater. Scholars debate single theoretical approaches in different scholarly journals, while the ‘new atheists’ such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett criticize the whole idea of religion. For everyone eager to understand the current state of the field, Contemporary Theories of Religion surveys the neglected landscape in its totality. Michael Stausberg brings together leading scholars of the field to review and discuss seventeen contemporary theories of religion. As well as scholars of religion, it features anthropologists, archaeologists, classicists, evolutionary biologists, philosophers and sociologists. Each chapter provides students with background information on the theoretician, a presentation of the theory’s basic principles, an analysis of basic assumptions, and a review of previous critiques. Concluding with a section entitled 'Back and Forth', Stausberg compares the different theories and points to further avenues of discussion for the future.

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316101932
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Theory in Anthropology written by Alan Barnard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist perspectives; the many faces of relativism, structuralism and post-structuralism; and recent interpretive and postmodernist viewpoints.

Author : Frank Whaling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110815818
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and Method in Religious Studies written by Frank Whaling and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition contains selected articles from the original clothbound editions of Contemporary Approaches to The Study of Religion. Vol I: The Humanities. Vol II: The Social Sciences. (Religion and Reason, 27/28).

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Publisher : EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1941 pages
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Download or read book UGC NET Sociology Paper II Chapter Wise Note Book | Complete Preparation Guide written by EduGorilla Prep Experts and published by EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Best Selling Book in English Edition for UGC NET Sociology Paper II Exam with objective-type questions as per the latest syllabus given by the NTA . • Increase your chances of selection by 16X. • UGC NET Sociology Paper II Kit comes with well-structured Content & Chapter wise Practice Tests for your self evaluation • Clear exam with good grades using thoroughly Researched Content by experts.

Author : Mathieu E. Courville
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441115951
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Edward Said's Rhetoric of the Secular written by Mathieu E. Courville and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Said's Rhetoric of the Secular provides an important new reading of Edward W. Said's work, emphasizing not only the distinction but also the fuzzy borders between representations of 'the religious' and 'the secular' found within and throughout his oeuvre and at the core of some of his most customary rhetorical strategies. Mathieu Courville begins by examining Said's own reflections on his life, before moving on to key debates about Said's work within Religious Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, and his relationship to French critical theorists. Through close attention to Said's use of the literal and the figurative when dealing with religious, national and cultural matters, Courville discerns a pattern that illuminates what Said means by secular. Said's work shows that the secular is not the utter opposite of religion in the modern globalized world, but may exist in a productive tension with it.