Method and theory in the study of religion : working papers from Hannover / edited by Steffen Führding.

Since the downfall of the phenomenology of religion as the leading paradigm in the study of religion in the 1960s, theoretical and methodological discussions surrounding the nature and identity of the study of religion as an academic discipline have proliferated. The essays included in this volume a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Führding, Steffen, 1981- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Religion > Methodology.
Methode.
Religion.
Religionswissenschaft.
Theorie.
Theologie.
Physical Description:ix, 276 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : theory, method, Hannover, and the study of religion / Steffen Führding
  • Comparison, practice, and meaning: Martin Riesebrodt's theory of religion / Alexander van der Haven
  • A plea for the study of religions / Peter Antes
  • Study of religions in the era of globalization of differences : the concept of agonistic context / Břetislav Horyna
  • "Man is the measure of all things..." : on the fabrication of oriental religions by european history of religions / Russell T. McCutcheon
  • Will the real fundamentalist please stand? : scholars and the category of 'fundamentalism' / Leslie Dorrough Smith
  • The ideology of religious studies revisited : abolishing politics / Timothy Fitzgerald
  • Christian origins and the gospel of Mark / Willi Braun
  • God as hypothesis : Daniel Paul Schreber and the study of religion / Alexander van der Haven
  • RS-Based RE - uphill, uphill, and uphill! / Tim Jensen
  • The study of islamic education, a litmus test on state relations to muslim minorities / Jenny Berglund
  • Afterword : the academic study of religions betwixt and between different interests / Wanda Alberts.