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9780521710145

The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521710145

  • ISBN10:

    0521710146

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-12-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Religion and Religious Studies: The Irony of Inheritance
On sympathy, suspicion, and studying religion: historical reflections on a doubled inheritance
Thinking about religion, belief and politics
Special things as building blocks of religions
The problem of the holy
Major Theoretical Problems
Social order or social chaos
Tradition: the power of constraint
The text and the world
On the role of normativity in religious studies
Translation
Material religion
Theology and the study of religion: a relationship
Methodological Variations
Buddhism and violence
Practicing religions
The look of the sacred
Reforming culture: law and religion today Winnifred
Sexing religion
Constituting ethical subjectivities
Neo-Pentecostalism and globalization
Religious criticism, secular critique, and the 'critical study of religion': lessons from the study of Islam
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