After briefly considering the differences among the ethical, The aesthetic, And the religious, The author discusses feelings often confused with religious experience and comments on the relationship between faith, Religious affirmation, And…
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The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious…
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Segal lanserer et frontalangrep på postmoderne religionsteorier, og tar opp problemene i en liste. Først ut er essensialisme, som han mener er en fiksjon postmoderniteten forsøker å angripe uten at den faktisk eksisterer; ideen om at teorier jakter…
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What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we-in the West, at least-largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a…
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The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion is a major resource for courses in Religious Studies. It begins by explaining the most important methodological approaches to religion, including psychology, philosophy, anthropology and comparative…
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This article explores the notion of virtual religion in various ways. In part, it is a response to a number of ideas found in the articles by Philip P. Arnold, Shawn Arthur, Christopher Helland, Anastasia Karaflogka and Mark MacWilliams which appear…
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This article addresses the predicament of the academic study of religions and directs the debate into more fruitful fields of research. After a brief account of the most important problems - identified as the "crisis of representation", the…
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Clifford Geertzs influential definition of religions as providing their members with both an ethos and a worldviewin his terms, both a model for and model of realityhas of late become a neuralgic point of contention in religious studies. In…
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This article explores the evolution and development of a typology of cyberspatial religious discourse over the course of a few years. The vast quantity of information published on the Net requires the creation of a typology in order to identify and…
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In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin…
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Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson "s brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the…
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Ritualized behavior is a specific way of organizing the flow of action, characterized by stereotypy, rigidity in performance, a feeling of compulsion, and specific themes, in particular the potential danger from contamination, predation, and social…
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6. Constructing religion, self and society Definerer sosialkonstruktivisme i forhold til studiet av religion: 193 "In relation to religion, then, a social contructionist approach tries to discover how terms such as 'religion', 'religious', 'sacred'…
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Intimacy of field research problematizes the anthropolgoical method "The Vodou Alourdes practices is intimate and intense, and i soon found that I could not claim a place in her Vodou family and remain a detached observer" (9). to maintain intimacy…
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This article argues that New Age spirituality is substantially less unambiguously individualistic and more socially and publicly significant than today's sociological consensus acknowledges. Firstly, an uncontested doctrine of self-spirituality,…
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The New Age movement represents the historically innovative phenomenon of a secular type of religion based upon a radically private symbolism. This thesis is developed against the background of a three-part definition of religion, according to which…
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A classic of modern religious thought, Schleiermacher's "On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers" is here presented in an acclaimed translation of the 1799 edition, written when its youthful author (subsequently a translator of Plato) was…
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The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is actually a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has…
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After sex, religion is one of the most popular and pervasive topics of interest online, with over three million Americans turning to the internet each day for religious information and spiritual guidance. Tens of thousands of elaborate websites are…
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By Paul J. Levesque TAYLOR, Mark, ed. Critical Terms for Religious Studies. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. vi + 424 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.00-This is a multidisciplinary and multicultural study of traditional and contemporary…
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