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Features fifty-one chapters by leading scholars offering a state-of-the-art survey of the discipline Examines conceptual issues of religion, theoretical approaches, modes, environments, topics, and an overview of the history of the discipline Each chapter reviews its topic with reference to at least two different religions Includes chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and end-of-chapter glossaries. The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religions provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religions. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of the ways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources (i.e., economy). Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicin
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael Stausberg; Steven Engler
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198729570
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian