Religious Studies: A Global View

attachments at universities abroad. The capacity of Nigerian scholars to network has enabled them to remain abreast of developme ...

Zimbabwe has a strong tradition in religious studies (Chitando 2002). McKenzie (1989: 104) maintains that Zimbabwe ‘has a good c ...

religion that is found in the villages and cities of the world today. There is now a growing realization that the study of relig ...

its essentialist ‘voice’ (Twiss and Conser 1992), it is possible for a researcher to establish the central thrust or heart of re ...

While scholars of religion have endeavored to cover the various religions found in sub-Saharan Africa, the study of Christianity ...

of tools of gender analysis. Whereas the theme of gender and religion has received a lot of scholarly attention elsewhere, relig ...

in Africa (Chitando 2005a). Jan G. Platvoet, Gerrie Ter Haar, David Westerlund, and Rosalind Hackett have reflected on method an ...

Saharan Africa to underscore what he considers an all-pervasive religiosity. The following passage has been widely cited as it c ...

writer from Uganda (Rinsum 2004). P’Bitek’s devastating attack on theo- logical approaches to the study of ATRs remains one of t ...

to appreciate ATRs as living phenomena. His focus on African spirituality (Olupona [ed.] 2003) is also motivated by the need to ...

It should be admitted that due to historical reasons, courses related to Christianity tend to dominate the curricula of most ins ...

settler colonialism in Zimbabwe and Namibia and apartheid in South Africa facilitated the entrenchment of European traditions in ...

indigenous religions and Christianity and Islam. Although in many cases scholars in departments of religious studies and those i ...

relates to the presence and full participation of women in the discipline. As already noted, men have dominated the study of rel ...

Conclusion The study of religions in sub-Saharan Africa continues to be competitive, despite the tendency by most scholars to ov ...

—— 2005a, ‘Phenomenology of religion and the study of African traditional religions’, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion ...

—— 1996b, ‘The study of religions in West Africa: A brief survey’, Platvoet, Jan G., et al. (eds) 1996, pp. 211–28. Olupona, Jac ...

Ter Haar, Gerrie 1990, Faith of our Fathers: Studies in Religious Education in Sub- Saharan Africa, Utrecht: Faculteit der Godge ...

5 South and Southeast Asia Rowena Robinson and Vineeta Sinha* SOUTHASIA Introduction 127 The idea of ‘Hindu India’ 127 Alternati ...

South Asia Introduction A T THE OUTSET IT MUST BE RECOGNIZEDthat ‘religious studies’ per se is hard to find as a separate discip ...