Religious Studies: A Global View

1998–2005) and the Theologische Realenzyklopädie(36 vols, 1977–2004). Both, however, are predominantly theological in focus. Tex ...

Storia delle religioni(1994–1997), five large volumes, containing chapters written mostly by Italian scholars. In 1998 Filoramo, ...

religious practices and traditions of the Lapps and the Finns—just a portion of his wide-ranging work. But Edsman founded no sch ...

at Lancaster, created in 1967 as the first of its kind in Britain. A highly prolific author, Smart represents a type of scholars ...

phenomenology ‘as the practice of empathy’ (Smart 2000: 26). He also advanced a ‘dynamic phenomenology’, that is, ‘a phenomenolo ...

of Fundamental Problems and Methods of Science of Religion (Drijvers and van Baaren 1973; cf. King 1984: 125–144). Ever since ‘m ...

Indo-European philology and history, in the case of Lévi-Strauss the indigenous peoples of South and North America. Their grand ...

qualifies candidates for positions in religious studies. Several notable historians of religions entered the field in this way, ...

Association for the Study of Religion, including the current president, Giulia Sfameni Gasparro, current vice-presidents, Halina ...

In the German-speaking area Burkhard Gladigow’s (2005: 289–301) program, launched 1993–1995, for a religious history of Europe, ...

who do not hold chairs in religious studies continue to make valuable contri- butions to the non-confessional study of religion. ...

—— 2002, ‘The science of religion in a Fascist state: Rudolf Otto and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer during the Third Reich’, Religion, vol ...

Bianchi, Ugo (ed.) 1994, The Notion of ‘Religion’ in Comparative Research, Roma: ‘L’Erma’ di Bretschneider. Bianchi, Ugo, Bleeke ...

—— 1988, ‘Zur Neubegründung einer Phänomenologie der Religionen und der Religion’, in Zinser, Hartmut (ed.), Religionswissenscha ...

Filoramo, Giovanni 2004, Che cos’è la religione? Temi, metodi, problemi, Torino: Einaudi. Fitzgerald, Timothy 2000, The Ideology ...

Haussig, Hans-Michael 1999, Der Religionsbegriff in den Religionen. Studien zum Selbst- und Religionsverständnis in Hinduismus, ...

Jensen, Tim, and Rothstein, Mikael (eds) 2000, Secular Theories of Religion. Current Perspectives, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum ...

Lanczkowski, Günter (ed.) 1974, Selbstverständnis und Wesen der Religions- wissenschaft, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesell ...

Otto, Rudolf 1958, The Idea of the Holy, 2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pals, Daniel L. 2006, Eight Theories of Relig ...

Ringgren, Helmer, and Strom, Åke V. 1957, Religionerna i historia och nutid, Stockholm: Svenska Kyrkans Diakonistyrelses Bokförl ...