Encyclopedia of Religion

to comprehending the syncretic pluralism of Japanese religions. In these respects, the Japanese study of religion has many thing ...

In order to study the ongoing interactions between con- temporary society and religions, new scholarly organizations were establ ...

Chapel Hill, N.C., 2003. This book closely examines presen- tations by Japanese Buddhists at the World Parliament of Religions i ...

ing from adherence to certain beliefs. For example, Ibn H:azm has a general section on Christianity followed by more specific di ...

cused on literary sources and doctrinal questions. Descrip- tions of practices, largely drawn from ethnographic-type ob- servati ...

Shar ̄ıEah colleges. Most comparative studies of religion within the universities of the Gulf region are housed within separate ...

standing one another... .” Associated centers in Iran in- clude the Institute for Dialogue among Religions in Tehran and the Bur ...

interpretations, and reflections on institutional religions (such as Christianity and Buddhism), on religious texts (such as the ...

(appreciated, criticized) much like a musical performance or an artifact. Study of this kind might include, for example, encoura ...

logical, historical, and cultural studies touching almost all as- pects of the academic study of religion from ancient Israel, A ...

A different trend in the study of religion is the forma- tion of centers that focus on religious topics but draw faculty from nu ...

Wiebe, Donald. The Politics of Religious Studies. New York, 1999. JEFFREY C. RUFF (2005) STUDY OF RELIGION: THE ACADEMIC STUDY O ...

1967 Bangalore Consultation, a milestone event in the aca- demic study of religion in South Asia. Two of the presenta- tions wer ...

and may perhaps be due largely to the Indological works and wider academic interests of F. Max Muller, who is associated with th ...

solely in terms of Western democratic models of party poli- tics or polity. The phenomenon of religion in South Asia has become ...

Many scholars in the study of religion argued that reli- gion was a critical variable in efforts to understand the lives of most ...

works on various aspects of indigenous religions. Other West and East African scholars maintained that African scholars were str ...

among the different countries, it continued to attract signifi- cant numbers of students. Scholarly Organizations and Publicatio ...

Prozesky, Martin. Religion and Ultimate Well-Being: An Explana- tory Theory. London, 1984. An effort to locate the central theme ...

cred objects of worship that helped people remember the Buddha were both present at and themselves identified as caityas. For ex ...