The Wiley Blackwell companion to the study of religion / edited by Robert A. Segal and Nickolas Roubekas. - Second edition. - 1 online resource - Wiley Blackwell companions to religion .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert A. Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Essex and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Vienna.

Nickolas P. Roubekas is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Contributors viii

About the Editors x

Introduction xi
Robert A. Segal

Part I Approaches 1

1 Anthropology of Religion 3
Fiona Bowie

2 Economics of Religion 25
Rodney Stark

3 Literature and Religion 44
Eric Ziolkowski

4 Phenomenology of Religion 65
Thomas Ryba

5 Philosophy of Religion 93
Charles Taliaferro

6 Psychology of Religion 113
Roderick Main

7 Sociology of Religion 135
Titus Hjelm

8 Theology 152
Ian S. Markham

Part II T opics 169

9 Body 171
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg

10 Cognitive Science 184
Jesper Sorensen

11 Comparative Method 197
Paul Roscoe

12 Death and Afterlife 209
Douglas J. Davies

13 Emotion 219
Tony Milligan

14 Esotericism 229
Karl Baier

15 Ethics 241
G. Scott Davis

16 Functionalism 253
Robert A. Segal

17 Fundamentalism 265
Henry Munson

18 Globalization 277
Michael Wilkinson

19 History 289
Robert A. Yelle

20 Law 302
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan

21 Magic 315
Kocku von Stuckrad

22 Modernism and Postmodernism 325
Paul-Francois Tremlett

23 Music 335
Guy L. Beck

24 Myth 348
Robert A. Segal

25 Nationalism 361
Mark Juergensmeyer

26 Pilgrimage 371
Simon Coleman

27 Ritual 382

Part I by Catherine Bell -- Part II by Jens Kreinath

28 Science 400
Ralph O'Connor

29 Secularization 414
Steve Bruce

30 Sex and Gender 429
Ivan Strenski

31 Terror and Violence 440
Lorne L. Dawson

Index 451

"The first edition of the Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion appeared all the way back in 2006. The second edition, now named the Wiley-Blackwell Companion, is revamped. The first edition consisted of twenty-four entries. The second consists of thirty-one entries. The differences are major. There are new entries: on cognitive science, emotion, esotericism, functionalism, globalization, history, law, music, science, sex and gender, and terror and violence. Three entries from the first edition have been dropped: heaven and hell, holy men/holy women, and mysticism-all dropped for idiosyncratic reasons. The comparative method has been switched from an approach to a topic. Five of the entries have new authors. One entry, that on ritual, has been retained unaltered because of the author's sad death in the interim, but it now has a supplementary updating of the subject. All but one of the existing entries have been substantially revised. When the first edition appeared, I was a member of a department of theology and religious studies. Two years ago my department decided to drop almost all of religious studies and to rename itself sheer "divinity." What the difference is between divinity and theology I have no idea. But the exclusion of religions other than Christianity from "divinity"-or even the past needed addition of "religious studies" to "theology"-is not quite a universal terminology. In the United States, not least at esteemed venues like the Harvard Divinity School, the Yale Divinity School, and the University of Chicago Divinity School, "divinity" covers all religions, not just one religion. Whatever the difference between an approach to, say, Islam in a divinity school and an approach to it in a department of religious studies, Islam is assumed to be a fit topic of study for both."--

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Religion.
Religion--Study and teaching.
Religion--Research.


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