Religious Studies: A Global View

religious or even specific theological allegiances. In like manner, given the right circumstances, one may be fortunate to suppl ...

concerning his own theological and political allegiances. Noteworthy collective volumes include Curators of the Buddha(1995), ed ...

widely quoted. No less popular, due in part to Geertz’s mellifluous style and in part to the widespread rejection of materialist ...

Lawson and Robert McCauley. Roy Rappaport’s early studies are both ethnog- raphies and theoretical contributions, whereas his fi ...

religious studies and cultural anthropology. Be that as it may, the main critique that ought to be directed at Lawson, McCauley, ...

of Symbolism, edited by Roy Willis (1975), and Symbol as Sense, edited by Mary Foster and Stanley Brandes (1980). Despite the ex ...

found in the Handbook of the Sociology of Religion(2003), edited by Michele Dillon, thirty of whose thirty-four contributors are ...

by the ethological research being carried out by Sosis and Alcorta in ‘Signaling, Solidarity, and the Sacred’ (2003); Sosis and ...

academics may be subsiding, giving way to a welcome return of comparative studies. A recent example of this trend is The Presenc ...

well as of scholars at the beginning of their careers indicates that the role played by the ‘lower’—more ‘material’—senses in th ...

The distinctive Christian horror towards same-sex practices is the subject of Mark Jordan’s The Invention of Sodomy in Christian ...

Confronted with such vastness, one can do little more than refer to Michael Witzel’s work on Vedic religion, some of which is av ...

Western expectations concerning the self-contained nature of religions—or, more frequently, ‘faiths’—combined with a tendency to ...

Zen(2003); and Jan Nattier, who engages in the kind of research in Inner Asian Buddhism that one used to associate with Friedric ...

antinomianism and the fashionable claim that his is ‘no more than a story, as opposed to a history’ (1991: 364), are more than m ...

even more significance if considered in conjunction with the pieces on Hinduism collected by Alf Hiltebeitel in Criminal Gods an ...

Kirkland points out that Daoism is not to be equated with popular religion or with Chinese millenarianism, while also rejecting ...

used by Schopen in his work on Buddhism. (To the list we should add a book not yet seen: Voting about God in Early Church Counci ...

generated controversy, some of which is not entirely free from apologetic tendencies; see, for example, Susan Garrett, ‘Light on ...

One cannot but be impressed by Sullivan’s ambition, insights, and command of the literature on South American religion, but the ...