Encyclopedia of Religion

As the structuralist theoretical inspiration has proved highly consequential for many of the human sciences, a number of works h ...

ciocultural codes of conduct, we may perceive the validity of structural approaches. E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley dem ...

rules about ritual purity, and all that it takes to make human and symbolic worlds meaningful. And in making those worlds, we al ...

STUDY OF RELIGION: AN OVERVIEW Unlike theology, the academic study of religion seeks to pro- vide accounts of the world’s religi ...

The mere existence of institutions such as universities is not, however, sufficient for the emergence of the academic study of r ...

and U.S. Americans (Japan). At the same time, it may not do justice either to scholars who have urged the adoption of humanistic ...

ignore the claims they made—or even become enamored with them without surrendering any real sense of identity or control. At the ...

of indigenous religions as a means to foster independent po- litical and cultural identities. More broadly, Mircea Eliade aspire ...

for psychology; Karl Marx (1818–1883), Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim for sociology; Gerardus van der Leeuw and Mircea Eliade for ...

Zealand and has been very active in hosting conferences out- side of Europe and North America. The International Com- mittee of ...

Malinowski moved on to the Trobriand Islands. Although Oceania was home to a quarter of the world’s discrete reli- gions and res ...

and Charles Birch’s work in process thought are two obvious cases. However, Australia is a more secular country, and Eric Sharpe ...

Strauss’s predecessor Maurice Leenhardt framed early body theory as a self-awareness process running from cosmomor- phism to ant ...

are Albert Moore, an authority on religious art; Brian Col- less, a patrologist; and Peter Donovan, an instructor in phi- losoph ...

gious studies stands in an objectively identical context: over the course of many centuries, Europe’s religious situation was de ...

gious studies, which attempted to examine religions objec- tively in their plurality, free of any religion-based bias. This inne ...

Among Hungarian researchers, the following should be mentioned: Károly Kerényi, Einführung in das Wesen der Mythologie (Introduc ...

university education existed neither during the period of Communist rule nor prior to that time. It was only after 1990 that the ...

However, it would be too Orientalistic to assume that the modern Japanese study of religions has been predominated by Zen Buddhi ...

particularly German, institutions began to be founded in Japan. While there were a number of private universities, some of which ...