New Approaches to the Study of Religion: Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches 311017698X, 9783110176988

Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
New Approaches to the Study of Religion in North America
A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in Europe
The Study of Religion, the History of Religions and Islamic Studies in Turkey
The Study of Religion and Social Crises
A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in India
A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in Australia and the Pacific
Philosophy and Religion
Meaning and Religion
Religion in Context
Ideological Critique in the Study of Religion
Gendering the History of Religion
Critical Trends in the Study of Religion in the United States
New Approaches to the Study of Religion and Culture
Religion and the Internet
New Approaches to the Study of New Religions in North America and Europe
New Approaches to the Study of the New Fundamentalisms
Zen and the Art of Inverting Orientalism
The Study of Western Esotericism
Backmatter

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New Approaches to the Study of Religion 1

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Religion and Reason

General Editor

Jacques Waardenburg, Lausanne Board of Advisers R. N. Bellah, Berkeley - M. Despland, Montreal - W. Dupre´, Nijmegen S. N. Eisenstadt, Jerusalem - C. Geertz, Princeton - U. King, Bristol P. Ricœur, Paris - M. Rodinson, Paris - K. Rudolph, Marburg L. E. Sullivan, Cambridge (USA)

Volume 42

Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York

New Approaches to the Study of Religion Volume 1: Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

Edited by Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne

Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York

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