Religious Studies: A Global View

The historical development of this academic discipline, on both discursive and institutional levels, is completely intertwined w ...

The problem is particularly acute because this dichotomy blinds most scholars, whether self-defined as ‘theologians’, ‘scientist ...

because it helps explain what is happening in North American institutions of higher learning as well as in the NAWA ones to whic ...

gone through multiple transformations. Throughout the course of the twentieth century, several reforms and decisions transformed ...

during the French mandate between World Wars I and II, and American secular influences in the latter part of the twentieth centu ...

nascent state. Here I can only provide a few examples. They reflect the same wide spectrum: from those where the academic study ...

The objective of the Faculty of Quran and Islamic Studies is to produce graduates with wide-ranging knowledge and deepened relig ...

known scholars. The academic research carried out in this institute definitely falls within the modern academic study of religio ...

twentieth-century history. After nationalizing and secularizing all education from 1924 onwards, the founder of the modern Repub ...

In Israel, as in Turkey, it is possible to find examples from the whole spectrum of religion and theology among the many univers ...

of Armenia, the phenomenology and structural analysis of religion, and the religions of Asia, particularly of India and Iran. Re ...

Emerging issues The most important emerging issues are similar to those in Europe and North America. The tensions between secula ...

discourse that was on the rise during the colonial period both among the colonialists and the rising local elites. It may also b ...

Huff, Toby 1993/2003, The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Khalid ...

Sub-Saharan Africa Ezra Chitando Prehistory of the study of religions 104 The emergence of the study of religion 105 The develop ...

T HE STUDY OF RELIGIONS, ALSO REFERRED TO ASreligious studies in this chapter, has emerged as an important academic discipline i ...

more firmly within the academic study of religions. However, I will draw attention to the stance by many African scholars that t ...

of the spirits, was encouraged to have his or her own independent assessment of the issues at hand. Thus, zano tsvaka uine rako( ...

The emergence of religious studies in sub-Saharan Africa is directly related to the interaction between the region and European ...

experiences that it had are useful as other African institutions that were estab- lished later had similar experiences. In Ugand ...