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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