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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Segal, Robert Alan,
• Roubekas, Nickolas P

Titel

The Wiley Blackwell companion to the study of religion

Auflage

Second edition

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2021]

Verknüpfte Titel

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Introduction -- Part I Approaches -- CHAPTER 1 Anthropology of Religion -- Definitions and Perspectives -- The Origins of Religion -- Religious Experience -- Modes of Thought -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 2 Economics of Religion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 3 Literature and Religion -- Origins of the Approach -- Myth Criticism -- From Theology and Literature to Religion and Literature -- Subversion of the Concepts of "Religion" and "Literature" -- Institutional Developments and Global Spread -- Future Directions -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 4 Phenomenology of Religion -- What "Phenomenology" Means -- How Phenomenology Generally Proceeds -- Philosophical Phenomenology Provides One of the Theoretical Frames for Religious Phenomenology -- Pre-Husserlian Philosophical Phenomenology -- The Philosophical Understanding of Phenomena -- The Philosophical Understanding of "Phenomenology" -- The Place of Phenomenology Within the Sciences -- Husserlian Phenomenology -- Phenomena in Husserlian Phenomenology -- Consciousness as Object-Constituting -- The Steps in the Husserlian Phenomenological Technique -- A Description of Philosophical Phenomenology -- Phenomenology of religion -- Chantepie's religious phenomenology -- Tiele's religious phenomenology -- Kristensen's religious phenomenology -- Van der Leeuw's religious phenomenology -- A Description of Religious Phenomenology -- Recent Critiques of Phenomenology -- Critiques of philosophical phenomenology -- Critiques of religious phenomenology -- Evaluation of the Criticisms of Philosophical and Religious Phenomenology -- Prospects for the Phenomenology of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 5 Philosophy of Religion -- The Meaning of Religious Beliefs and Practices -- Debate about the Coherence of Theism.
• Eternity -- The Goodness of God -- Arguments For and Against God's Existence -- Theistic arguments -- The problem of evil -- Religious Pluralism -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 6 Psychology of Religion -- The Beginnings of Psychology of Religion -- Hall, Leuba, and Starbuck -- James and Pratt -- Depth Psychological Approaches -- Janet and Flournoy -- Freud -- Jung -- Other psychoanalytic contributions: Winnicott, Kohut, Erikson -- Empirical Approaches -- Methodology -- Religious phenomena -- Origins of religion -- Effects of religion -- Evaluation of the empirical approach -- Religion and Psychology -- Theology, psychology, and psychotherapy -- Religious and anti‐religious agendas -- Humanistic and transpersonal psychology -- Psychology and comparativist approaches to religion -- Psychology as religion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 7 Sociology of Religion -- Three Approaches -- Religion and Social Change -- Secularization -- Desecularization and post-secularity -- Supply-side theories of religion -- Individualization and spirituality -- Globalization -- Current Directions -- Public religion -- Mediatization -- Lived religion -- Non‐religion -- Intersectionality -- Doing Sociology of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 8 Theology -- The Word "Theology" in Use -- Sources for Systematic Theology -- Modernity and Theology -- Future Directions in Theology -- Bibliography -- Part II Topics -- CHAPTER 9 Body -- Mind-Body Dualism -- The Interdisciplinarity of Religious Studies and the Category of the Body -- Representations of the Human and the Divine Body in Western and Asian Sacred Texts -- Divine Love and the Body -- The Ritual Body -- Purity and the Body -- The Body in Health and Healing -- Gendered and Sexualized Bodies in Religion -- The Modified Body -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 10 Cognitive Science -- Grand Explanations.
• Cognitive Assumptions -- Religious Ideas -- Religious Behavior -- Take It To The Lab? -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 11 Comparative Method -- The Endless Debate: Comparison in the Social Sciences -- Comparison and the Mind-World Interface in Anthropology -- Comparativism in Religious Studies -- The Comparative Critique Redux -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 12 Death and Afterlife -- Theoretical Approaches -- Religious Perspectives -- Secular Perspectives -- Ecological Death -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 13 Emotion -- The Concept of Emotion -- Valuing, Acting, and Responding -- Two Cautionary Notes -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 14 Esotericism -- A Look at the Historical Semantics -- The "Occult Sciences" Across Cultural and Geographical Borders -- The Social and Religious Formation of Secrecy and the Claim to Higher Knowledge -- Esotericism as the Core of All Religion -- The Faivre/Hanegraaff Paradigm: Western Esotericism as an Umbrella Term for Rejected Historical Currents and as Form of Thought -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 15 Ethics -- Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion -- A Typology of Ethics -- Thomas Aquinas: An Example of Methodological Pluralism -- Religion and Moral Decisions -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 16 Functionalism -- History of Functionalism -- Hempel's Attack on Functionalism -- The Response to Hempel from Religious Studies -- The Response to Hempel from Anthropologists -- The Response to Hempel by Philosophers -- Cummins' Functionalism Applied to Explanations of Religion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 17 Fundamentalism -- Common Criticisms -- The Selectively Literal Interpretation of Sacred Texts -- Christian Fundamentalism -- Jewish Fundamentalism -- The Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) of Eastern European Origin -- The Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) of Middle Eastern Origin -- Religious Zionism -- Islamic Fundamentalism.
• Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 18 Globalization -- Theories of Globalization -- Public Religion and Societal Engagement -- Migration, Transnationalism, and Transplanting Tradition -- Religious Diversity, Pluralism, and Multiculturalism -- Missionary Movements and Worldwide Expansion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 19 History -- Introduction -- Evolutionary and developmental histories of religion(s) -- Religious views of history and temporality -- Secularization and disenchantment as historical processes and narratives -- Evolutionary and Developmental Histories of Religion(s) -- Religious Views of History and Temporality -- Secularization and Disenchantment as Historical Processes and Narratives -- Theories of secularization and enlightenment -- The Löwith-Blumenberg debate and its aftermath -- Christian origins of the idea of disenchantment -- Note -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 20 Law -- Modern Law -- Law and Religion -- Religious Law -- International Law -- The Study of Law -- Images of Justice -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 21 Magic -- Thwarting Magic in Modern Theories -- Magic and Religion -- Passive submission versus active control -- Social benefit versus anti-social implications -- Magic and Science -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 22 Modernism and Postmodernism -- Modernism -- Postmodernism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 23 Music -- Music and Religious Studies -- Social Sciences and Humanities -- Liturgical Studies -- Cognitive Studies -- Musicology of Religion -- Resources and Current Outlook -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 24 Myth -- Myth as the Primitive Counterpart to Science: Tylor and Frazer -- Myth as Other Than an Explanation of the Physical World: Malinowski and Eliade -- Myth as Other Than Literal in Meaning: Bultmann and Jonas -- Myth as Both Other Than Explanatory and Other Than Literal: Freud and Jung.
• Myth as a Seeming Revival of Tylor and Frazer: Boyer, Burkert, and Girard -- Myth as Again Primitive Science: Lévi‐Strauss -- Myth as Again about the External World: Gaia -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 25 Nationalism -- The Assault on Secular Nationalism -- Religion in Support of New Nationalisms -- The Global Agenda of Religious Nationalism -- The Future of Religious Nationalism -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 26 Pilgrimage -- Pilgrimage Defined -- Pilgrimage Lost -- Pilgrimage Regained -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 27 Ritual -- General Overview -- Models -- Recent Formulations -- The Contemporary Ritual Scene -- Bibliography -- Part II by Jens Kreinath: Recent Trends -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 28 Science -- Moving Beyond the Soap Opera: Three Episodes from the Christian West -- "Conflict" in Context -- The Plurality of Sciences and Religions -- Varieties of Scientific and Religious Experience -- Lumpers, Splitters, and Marriage -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 29 Secularization -- Understanding Secularization -- Monotheism (R1) -- The Protestant Ethic (E1) -- Structural Differentiation (S2) -- Social Differentiation (S1) -- Individualism (RO1) -- Societalization -- Schism and Sect Formation (RO3) -- Social and Cultural Diversity (S3) -- Compartmentalization and Privatization (S6) -- The Secular State and Liberal Democracy (P1) -- The Moderation of Sects and Churches (RO5) -- Economic Growth (E3) -- Science (R3) and Technology (R4) -- Technological Consciousness (CS1) -- Relativism (CS2) -- Retarding Tendencies -- Cultural Transition -- Cultural Defense -- The Rational Choice Alternative -- The Irreversibility of Secularization -- Bibliography -- CHAPTER 30 Sex and Gender -- "Religion, We Have a Problem . . ." -- In the Beginning. . . -- Counter-cultural, Feminist Studies of Women in Religion -- A History of Asymmetry -- A Rainbow in Sexual Space.
• And Don't Confuse Sex with Sexuality.
• "The first edition of the Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion appeared all the way back in 2006. The second edition, now named the Wiley-Blackwell Companion, is revamped. The first edition consisted of twenty-four entries. The second consists of thirty-one entries. The differences are major. There are new entries: on cognitive science, emotion, esotericism, functionalism, globalization, history, law, music, science, sex and gender, and terror and violence. Three entries from the first edition have been dropped: heaven and hell, holy men/holy women, and mysticism-all dropped for idiosyncratic reasons. The comparative method has been switched from an approach to a topic. Five of the entries have new authors. One entry, that on ritual, has been retained unaltered because of the author's sad death in the interim, but it now has a supplementary updating of the subject. All but one of the existing entries have been substantially revised. When the first edition appeared, I was a member of a department of theology and religious studies. Two years ago my department decided to drop almost all of religious studies and to rename itself sheer "divinity." What the difference is between divinity and theology I have no idea. But the exclusion of religions other than Christianity from "divinity"-or even the past needed addition of "religious studies" to "theology"-is not quite a universal terminology. In the United States, not least at esteemed venues like the Harvard Divinity School, the Yale Divinity School, and the University of Chicago Divinity School, "divinity" covers all religions, not just one religion. Whatever the difference between an approach to, say, Islam in a divinity school and an approach to it in a department of religious studies, Islam is assumed to be a fit topic of study for both."--
• Description based on print version record.