Religious Studies: A Global View

and by the flourishing of the study of religion in the People’s Republic of China today. Other, complementary global factors may ...

There is rich potential for exploring these developments. But most work done to date, including what I have written above, remai ...

and the loss in classics and archaeology was worst of all (87 percent). Note that these are fields with which religious studies ...

worldwide (Drori and Moon 2006: 164). From 1915–1935 to 1975–1995, the share of faculty in the social sciences more than tripled ...

instruction at private ones), but as interpreted by several government commissions—the Radhakrishnan Commission (1948–1949), the ...

Guanghu, Chung Chin-hong, and Lee Chang-yick all remark upon how odd the term originally seemed in Chinese and Korean. Ezra Chit ...

Space allows me to do no more than enumerate several other important issues concerning the institutionalization of religious stu ...

the study of religion, but it hardly does justice to the careful scholarly work being done by people of non-European ancestry th ...

calls ‘McDonaldization’, that is, ‘the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more a ...

resources—situations epitomized by colonialism—but it should also be easy to see problems with a simplistic invocation of ‘epist ...

widespread efforts to deconstruct inherited terminology. Statements such as ‘religion is a Western construction and therefore in ...

while in the year 2000 all other regions of the globe averaged more than 200 students in tertiary education for every 10,000 per ...

Finally, a global study of religion may face a practical challenge that characterizes all human intellectual activity, but one t ...

Bourdieu, Pierre 1988, Homo academicus, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Drori, Gili S., and Moon, Hyeyoung 2006, ‘The c ...

Ritzer, George 1996, The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life, T ...

Abbasid caliphate 81 ‘Abd al-JabbÇr 83 Abe, Masao 303 Aboriginal people, Australia 219, 220, 302 Aboriginal studies 231 Abrahami ...

Alatas, Syed Hussein 145 al-‘Alav¥, Abal-Ma‘Çl¥ 84 Al-Azhar University, Cairo 90–91 Albania 51 Albert, Hans 245 Albright, Willi ...

art, art history 36, 92, 166, 231, 232, 313 concept of 244 as import from ‘West’ 177 arts, the 208, 211 Aryan invasion, alleged ...

Baetke, Walter 22 Baghdad, Iraq 81 al-Baghdad¥ 84 Baha’is, Baha’i religion 111, 233 Bahrain 77 Bali 250 Balkans, the 52, 66, 77 ...

Brno, the Czech Republic 65 Brockington, John 67 Brodeur, Patrice 308, 313, 318, 319 Brook, Timothy 263 Brooklyn, United States ...