Understanding Religion

Benson Saler

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 48
• This volume consists of 12 essays published by the author between the years 1997-2007, a thirteenth paper read at a conference in 2006, and a long int... Lees meer

Category Formation and the History of Religions

Robert D Baird

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 1
• No detailed description available for "Category formation and the history of religions". Lees meer

How to Do Comparative Religion?

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 44
• Well-known scholars in the study of religions bring up to date and elucidate the discussion on the three most debated approaches in comparative religi... Lees meer

Religion, Economy, and Cooperation

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 49
• Why give money to beggars? Why make sacrifices to help others? The current volume targets such questions with the tools of neoclassical and behavioura... Lees meer

Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 61
• In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars uses history, sociology, anthropology, and semiotics to approach Transcendence as a human pheno... Lees meer

Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 43
• No detailed description available for "Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches". Lees meer

Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 37
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From Deprived to Revived

Mikko Heimola

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 53
• It is a truism that religion has to do with social cohesion, but the precise nature of this link has eluded scholars and scientists. Drawing on new re... Lees meer

Play and Power in Religion

André Droogers

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 50
• At a religion's margins a counterpoint can be found for its power center. In a creative manner, relatively free from clerical control, religious virtu... Lees meer

Muslims and Others

Jacques Waardenburg

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 41
• Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outsi... Lees meer

Mapping Islamic Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 38
• No detailed description available for "Mapping Islamic Studies". Lees meer

Vision, Tradition, Interpretation

Eric J Lott

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 35
• No detailed description available for "Vision, Tradition, Interpretation". Lees meer

New Approaches to the Study of Religion. Volume 1+2

• Paperback | Duits | Religion and Reason | nr. 42
• International renommierte Wissenschaftler geben einen kritischen Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen und Trends in der Religionswissenschaft. Nach d... Lees meer

To the Things Themselves

Arvind Sharma

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 39
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Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 42
• Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field... Lees meer

Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 43
• Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field... Lees meer

The Social Sciences

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 28
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No Bosses, No Gods

Matthew Day

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 68
• Flagging enrollments. Disappearing majors. Closed departments. The academic study of religion is in trouble. No Bosses, No Gods argues that Karl Marx ... Lees meer

Extreme Religious Behaviours

Johannes Bronkhorst

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 70
• Certain religious behaviours clearly reduce biological fitness. These behaviours include celibacy along with various forms of asceticism, and rituals ... Lees meer

Exploring Religions in Motion

Michael Pye

• Paperback | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 52
• These two volumes present Pye's methodological, theoretical, and field-based interests in the study of religions. Pye understands the study of religio... Lees meer

Sign, Method and the Sacred

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | Semiotics of Religion | nr. 64
• To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification... Lees meer

Mediation and Immediacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | Semiotics of Religion | nr. 62
• Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group cond... Lees meer

Deep History, Secular Theory

Luther Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 54
• Over the course of his career, Luther H. Martin has primarily produced articles rather than monographs. This approach to publication has given him the... Lees meer

Major Works 1976-1980. Completion Volume 1

• Hardcover | Engels | Religion and Reason | nr. 8
• No detailed description available for "Major Works 1976-1980. Completion Volume 1". Lees meer