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Religious studies --- Religion --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Guides, manuels, etc. --- Study and teaching. --- -291 <035> --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Study and teaching --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend--Grote handboeken. Compendia --- 291 <035> --- religious studies --- methodological approaches --- religion --- psychology --- philosophy --- anthropology --- comparative study --- gender --- science --- fundamentalism --- ritual --- new religious movements --- globalization --- diaspora --- politics

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"The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities. A group of distinguished scholars takes up some of the most pressing theoretical questions in the field. What is a "religious tradition"? How are religious texts read? What takes place when a religious practitioner stands before a representation of gods or goddesses, ghosts, ancestors, saints, and other special beings? What roles is religion playing in contemporary global society? The volume emphasizes religion as a lived practice, stressing that people have used and continue to use religious media to engage the circumstances of their lives. This underlying conviction provides a realistic perspective on religion, and the volume,♯s̥ essays engage with real-world religious practices. The volume,♯s̥ essays should prove valuable and interesting to a broad audience, including scholars in the humanities and social sciences and a general readership, as well as students of religious studies"--

Religion --- Study and teaching. --- Research. --- -291 <035> --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend--Grote handboeken. Compendia --- General. --- 291 <035> --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Research --- Study and teaching --- Etude et enseignement --- Recherche --- Religion - Study and teaching. --- Religion - Research. --- religious studies --- religion --- religious tradition --- religious texts --- religion and society --- religious practices

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This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. It is organized into six sections corresponding to the major living religious traditions: the Indic cultural region, the Buddhist/Confucian, the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim regions, and the African cultural region. In each section an introductory essay discusses the social development of that religious tradition historically. The other essays cover the basic social factsthe communitys size, location, organizational and pilgrimage centers, authority figures, patterns of governance, major subgroups and schismsas well as issues regarding boundary maintenance, political involvement, role in providing cultural identity, and encounters with modernity. Communities in the diaspora and at the periphery are covered, as well as the central geographic regions of the religious traditions. Thus, for example, Islamic communities in Asia and the United States are included along with Islamic societies in the Middle East. The contributors are leading scholars of world religions, many of whom are also members of the communities they study. The essays are written to be informative and accessible to the educated public, and to be respectful of the viewpoints of the communities analyzed.

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