Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

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R E L I G I O U S S T U D I E S Religious Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible, A–Z resource, defining and explaining key ...

Also available from Routledge Islam: The Key Concepts Kecia Ali and Oliver Leaman 978–0–415–39629– Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers (Se ...

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First published 2011 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

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C O N T E N T S Preface ix List of Key Concepts xi Religion and religious studies: an introduction 1 The KeY CONCePTS 19 Bibliog ...

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P R E FA C E The primary purpose of this book is to provide a resource for readers seeking a definition of key concepts in the f ...

preface x particular concept. There are numerous entries that I wanted to include, but because of limitations imposed on the len ...

L I S T O F K E Y C O N C E P T S Afterlife Agency Agnosticism Ancestors Animism Antinomianism Apocalypse Architecture Art Ascet ...

list of key concepts xii Judgment Kingship Knowledge Language Last things Law Liberation Liminality Love Madness Magic Martyrdom ...

list of key concepts xiii Totemism Truth Violence/non-violence Visions Women World religions Worldview Worship ...

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RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES An introduction Religion is a subject that nearly everyone feels comfortable identifying without ...

an introduction of religio. It is confirmed by Saint Augustine, a church bishop in North Africa, in the early fifth century that ...

an introduction indigenous people) forms of culture by comparing higher forms of civi- lization in the West with simple, inferio ...

an introduction away from the quest for the origins of religion. Lang was critical of the evolutionary religion theorists, belie ...

an introduction Sociologists and anthropologists of the twentieth century also made contributions to the quest for a science of ...