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Title New approaches to the study of religion. Volume 2, Textual, comparative, sociological, and cognitive approaches / edited by Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne.

Publication Info. Berlin : De Gruyter, [2004]
2004

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Description 1 online resource (503 pages)
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Series Religion and reason ; v. 43
Religion and reason ; 43.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Section 4. Textual approaches ; New approaches to the problem of translation in the study of religion / Alan Williams -- The use of electronic media in the study of sacred texts / Gordon D. Newby -- New approaches: Literary theory / Dawne McCance.
Section 5. Comparative approaches ; Comparison in the study of religion / William E. Paden -- New approaches to the study of syncretism / Luther H. Martin and Anita Maria Leopold -- Performance theory and the study of ritual / Ronald L. Grimes -- New approaches to the study of religious dance / Helga Barbara Gundlach -- Human rights: An important and challenging new field for the study of religion / Rosalind I.J. Hackett.
Section 6. Social sciences ; A survey of advances in the sociology of religion (1980-2000) / Liliane Voye -- Assessing secularization theory / Karel Dobbelaere -- Urbanization and religion / Robert Kisala -- Religion and diaspora / Steven Vertovec -- Approaches to the study of religion in the media / Alf G. Linderman -- Beyond "Church and State": Advances in the study of religion and law / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.
Section 7. Cognition and cross-cultural psychology ; Cognitive approaches to the study of religion / Armin W. Geertz -- The naturalness of religious concepts: An emerging cognitive science of religion / Justin L. Barrett -- Psychoanalyzing prehistory: Struggling with the unrecorded past / David A. Warburton -- Conclusion / Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 1, 2013).
Subject Religion -- Comparative studies.
Religions -- Study and teaching -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Antes, Peter, 1942-
Geertz, Armin W., 1948-
Warne, R. R. (Randi Ruth), 1952-
Added Title Textual, comparative, sociological, and cognitive approaches
ISBN 9783110181753
9783110211719 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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