Religious Studies: A Global View

regional identity sometimes proved so tenuous or politically sensitive that it became impossible to draft the chapter as an undi ...

edition is now available in Chinese: Pals 2005) discusses in turn E. B. Tylor and James George Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Émile Durk ...

studies in the context of globalization: in his words, it should ‘provide an understanding of human frailty and... [an education ...

is misleading. The word is most at home in Christianity. Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and others often do not think of thei ...

REFERENCES Alatas, Syed Farid, and Sinha, Vineeta 2001, ‘Teaching classical sociological theory in Singapore: The context of Eur ...

—— 2006, The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions, New York: Oxford University Press. Laurence, Stephen, and Margolis, Eric 1999, ...

Western Europe Michael Stausberg Prehistory of the study of religion 16 Searching for the roots 16 ‘Religion’: a foundational co ...

T HE CHAPTERS IN THIS VOLUME REFER TOgeographical units. But while Western Europe may appear as a homogeneous unit from an Ameri ...

Prehistory of the study of religion The non-confessional study of religion did not fall from heaven any more than the books of r ...

shift from a religious to a naturalistic framework for the study of religion’ (Preus 1996: 207; cf. Segal 1994). Roughly a centu ...

the French anthropologist Daniel Dubuisson argued that the category of religion as referring to a separate domain is a Western c ...

Durkheim’s notion of the ‘sacred’, he approvingly referred to Schleier- macher’s On Religion, which the German theologian Rudolf ...

Oriental and Islamic studies, ethnology, sociology, and psychology. Many scholars from these disciplines made a far more lasting ...

Early reference works and textbooks Most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reference works were theo- logical in orientati ...

(1932–2002) (Pentikäinen 2005). His disciple Juha Pentikäinen became the first professor of comparative religion at the Universi ...

Gustav Mensching (1901–1978), who joined the Nazi Party as early as 1934, was appointed as Clemen’s successor in Bonn, despite r ...

There, the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) was established, with van der Leeuw as its first presi ...

entered into the academic studies of Italian Universities in the 1960s’ (Terrin 1998: 374). For the Netherlands Platvoet points ...

good number of spiritual seekers. Since the late 1980s these factors, together with a growing awareness of the importance of rel ...

roots of some of the main protagonists of the post-World War II study of religion in Britain (Cox 2006: 141–159). The Dutch scho ...