The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 November 2016
- ISBN 9780198729570
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages882 pages
- Size 246x171 mm
- Weight 1620 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume offers a comprehensive and diverse survey of the study of religion.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion provides a comprehensive overview of the academic study of religion. Written by an international team of leading scholars, its fifty-one chapters are divided thematically into seven sections. The first section addresses five major conceptual aspects of research on religion. Part two surveys eleven main frameworks of analysis, interpretation, and explanation of religion. Reflecting recent turns in the humanities and social sciences, part three considers eight forms of the expression of religion. Part four provides a discussion of the ways societies and religions, or religious organizations, are shaped by different forms of allocation of resources. Other chapters in this section consider law, the media, nature, medicine, politics, science, sports, and tourism. Part five reviews important developments, distinctions, and arguments for each of the selected topics. The study of religion addresses religion as a historical phenomenon and part six looks at seven historical processes. Religion is studied in various ways by many disciplines, and this Handbook shows that the study of religion is an academic discipline in its own right. The disciplinary profile of this volume is reflected in part seven, which considers the history of the discipline and its relevance. Each chapter in the Handbook references at least two different religions to provide fresh and innovative perspectives on key issues in the field. This authoritative collection will advance the state of the discipline and is an invaluable reference for students and scholars.
The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion is an impressively thorough treatment, and it's difficult to imagine a single volume that could accomplish a more complete survey of the field of religious studies.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Aims, Scope, and Organization
Part I. Religion
Definition
Historicizing and Translating Religion
Theories of Religion
Religion and Spirituality
Non-religion
Part II. Theoretical Approaches
Cognitive Science
Economics
Evolutionary Theory
Feminism and Gender Theory
Hermeneutics
Marxism
Postcolonialism
Semantics
Semiotics
(Post)-structuralism
Social Theory
Part III. Modes
Communication
Materiality
Narrative
Performance
Sound
Space
Time
Part IV. Environments
Economy
Law
Media
Nature
Medicine
Politics
Science
Sports
Tourism
Part V. Topics
Belief
Emotion
Experience
Gift and Sacrifice
Gods
Initiation and Transitions
Priests, Prophets, Sorcerers
Purity
Salvation
Part VI. Processes
Differentiation
The Disintegration and Death of Religions
Expansion
Globalization
Individualization and Privatization
Tradition and Innovation
Objectification and Commodification
Syncretism and Hybridization
Part VII. The Discipline
History
Relevance
