Religious Studies: A Global View

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Religious Studies A Global View Religious Studies: A Global Viewis the first book of its kind to survey the field of Religious S ...

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R eligious Studies A Global View Edited by ...

First published 2008 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

C ontents List of contributors vii List of abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Gregory D. Alles 1 Western Europe 14 Michael Stausber ...

8 Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands 218 Majella Franzmann 9 North America 242 Gustavo Benavides 10 Latin America 26 ...

C ontributors Gregory D. ALLESteaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at McDaniel College, Westminster, Ma ...

Eugen CIURTINis currently a postdoctoral fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, New Europe College, Bucharest, and of Mai ...

he is currently working on a book that will compare Mircea Eliade and Jonathan Z. Smith. Sylvia MARCOSis a research associate in ...

x Renée DE LATORREis Professor in the Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social del Occidente, in Guadalajara, México ...

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CONICET Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas CPC Communist Party of China CSDS Centre for Developing Socie ...

I ntroduction Gregory D. Alles Boundaries Gregory D. Alles Organization Acknowledgm ...

T HE STUDY OF RELIGIONS IS A global enterprise. I do not mean what some might mean by that phrase: that scholars of religions ha ...

[Spain] (2000), Vienna, Austria (2002), São Paulo, Brazil (2002 and 2006), Lima, Perú (2002), Roehampton, England (2002), Paris, ...

Boundaries The Afterword considers several topics key to a global vision of religious studies: history, institutionalization, an ...

are distinctions without a difference. Theological studies, thought of as exploring a religious tradition from within, must also ...

boundaries of the category ‘knowledge’ are fuzzy. For example, was it knowledge when physicists in the nineteenth century attrib ...

behavior in the same manner that we understand all other forms of human thought and behavior. This orientation does not necessar ...