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Yearbook of international religious demography 2015
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ISBN: 9004297391 9789004297395 9789004294318 9004294317 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands

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The Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook. The 2015 issue highlights both global and local realities in religious adherence, from the demographics of the world's atheists to the emigration of Christians from the Middle East. Other case studies include inter-religious marriage patterns in Austria, Muslim immigration to Australia, and methodological challenges in counting Hasidic Jews.


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Writing religion
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ISBN: 9780817388386 0817388389 9780817318727 0817318720 Year: 2015 Publisher: Tuscaloosa

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In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religions is an edited collection of essays that highlights critical contributions from the first ten Aronov lecturers. Section one of the volume, " Writing Discourses," features essays by Jonathan Z. Smith, Bruce Lincoln, and Ann Pellegrini that illustrated


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Why religions matter
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ISBN: 1316235203 1316237095 1316048020 110708511X 1107448344 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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What are religions? Why is it important to understand them? One answer is that religions and religious believers are extremely bad news: they are deeply involved in conflicts around the globe; they harm people of whom they disapprove; and they often seem irrational. Another answer claims that they are in fact extremely good news: religious beliefs and practices are universal and so fundamental in human nature that they have led us to great discoveries in our explorations of the cosmos and of who we are. The sciences began as part of that religious exploration. John Bowker demonstrates that there is truth in both answers and that we need both to understand what religion is and why it matters. He draws on many disciplines - from physics, genetics and the neurosciences to art, anthropology and the history of religions - to show how they shed entirely new light on religion in the modern world.


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NVMEN, the academic study of religion, and the IAHR : past, present and prospects
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ISBN: 9004308466 9789004308466 9789004305281 9004305289 Year: 2015 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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Nvmen publishes papers representing the most recent scholarship in all areas of the history of religions ranging from antiquity to contemporary history. It covers a diversity of geographical regions and religions of the past as well as of the present. The approach of the journal to the study of religion is strictly non-confessional. While the emphasis lies on empirical, source-based research, typical contributions also address issues that have a wider historical or comparative significance for the advancement of the discipline. Numen also publishes papers that discuss important theoretical innovations in the study of religion and reflective studies on the history of the discipline. Brill is proud to present this special volume of articles compiled to celebrate the occasion of the 60th anniversary of NVMEN: International Review for the History of Religions in 2014. The articles in this volume have been selected under the auspices of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), and reflect critically on the past, present, and future of NVMEN, the IAHR and the study of the History of Religions.


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The crisis of the holy : challenges and transformations in world religions
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ISBN: 1532670095 9781532670091 1532659253 9781532659256 Year: 2015 Publisher: Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock,

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Komparative Theologie : Herausforderung für die Religionspädagogik : Perspektiven zukunftsfähigen interreligiösen Lernens
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ISBN: 3506782592 9783506782595 3657782591 9783657782598 Year: 2015 Volume: 20 Publisher: Paderborn: Schöningh,

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Erstmals wird in diesem Buch gefragt: Wie können Komparative Theologie und Religionspädagogik einander begegnen? Und welche neuen Formen des Miteinanders können daraus entstehen? Interreligiöses Lernen ist eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben unserer Zeit. Die Entwicklungen der Weltpolitik, aber auch unser tägliches Miteinander verdeutlichen die Dringlichkeit einer Besinnung auf gemeinsame Grundlagen. Die Komparative Theologie sucht neue Wege von Dialog und Verständigung, ohne die Unterschiede zwischen den Religionen zu bestreiten. Mit der zweifach gestellten Frage, wie Komparative Theologie und religionspädagogische Ansätze sich gegenseitig – positiv – beeinflussen, verfolgt das Buch innovative Wege.

The Great Mother : an analysis of the archetype
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ISBN: 0691097429 1400866103 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how the feminine has been represented as goddess, monster, gate, pillar, tree, moon, sun, vessel, and every animal from snakes to birds. Neumann discerns a universal experience of the maternal as both nurturing and fearsome, an experience rooted in the dialectical relation of growing consciousness, symbolized by the child, to the unconscious and the unknown, symbolized by the Great Mother. Featuring a new foreword by Martin Liebscher, this Princeton Classics edition of The Great Mother introduces a new generation of readers to this profound and enduring work.


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Radical secularization?
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ISBN: 9781628921786 9781628921809 9781628921793 1628921781 1628921803 9781501308543 1501308548 162892179X 1501322680 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, NY

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"What does it mean for a society to be secular? Answering this question from a philosophical angle, Radical Secularization? delves into the philosophical presuppositions of secularization. Which cultural evolutions made secularization possible? International scholars from different disciplines assess the answers given by many leading philosophers such as, among others, L with, Blumenberg and Habermas (Germany), Gauchet and Nancy (France), Taylor and Bellah (North America). They examine the theory that secularization cannot only be regarded as a cultural change that was forced upon religion from an external source (e.g. science), but should also be considered as a phenomenon triggered by motives internal to religion. If religions are indeed capable of inner transformations, the question arises whether religions can persist in the secular societies they inadvertently helped to bring about, and how secular societies may accommodate religion."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Studying religions with the iron curtain closed and opened : the academic study of religion in Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9789004283077 9789004292789 9004283072 9004292780 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Open. The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe offers an account of the research focused on the origins, development and the current situation of the Study of Religions in the 20th century in countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, and Russia. Special attention is devoted to the ideological influences determining the interpretation of religion, especially connected with the rise of Marxist-Leninist criticism of religion.


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Friendship across religions : theological perspectives on interreligious friendship
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ISBN: 9781498526357 1498526357 9781498526364 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham, MD Lexington Books

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