Religion in 50 Words: A Critical Vocabulary

ISBN-13: 9780367690472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str.

Aaron W. Hughes; Russell T. McCutcheon

Opis

This book is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct and critical examination of the key words used in the modern study of religion.

Spis treści

Introduction: A User’s Guide;  1. Affect;  2. Authenticity;  3. Authority;  4. Belief;  5. Canon;  6. Classification;  7. Cognition;  8. Comparison;  9. Critical;  10. Culture;  11. Definition;  12. Description;  13. Diaspora;  14. Environment;  15. Essence;  16. Experience;  17. Explanation;  18. Faith;  19. Function;  20. Gender;  21. History;  22. Identity;  23. Ideology;  24. Indigeneity;  25. Interpretation;  26. Law;  27. Lived Religion;  28. Material Religion;  29. Method;  30. Methodological Agnosticism;  31. Origin;  32. Orthodoxy;  33. Phenomenology;  34. Pluralism;  35. Politics;  36. Power;  37. Practice;  38. Primitive;  39. Race;  40. Redescription;  41. Religion;  42. Religious Literacy;  43. Sacred/Profane;  44. Secular;  45. Society;  46. Status;  47. Text;  48. Theory;  49. World Religions;  50. Worldview;  Appendix: A Word on Etymologies;  Index