Reinventing Religious Studies : Key Writings in the History of a Discipline
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| Title: | Reinventing Religious Studies : Key Writings in the History of a Discipline |
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| Description: | 'Reinventing Religious Studies'offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has been transformed into a critical discipline informed by a wide range of perspectives from sociology to anthropology, politics to material culture, and economics to cultural theory.'Reinventing Religious Studies'brings together key writings which have helped shape scholarship, teaching and learning in the field. All the essays are drawn from the CSSR Bulletin, a provocative, occasionally irreverent, and always critical journal which has long been at the centre of debates in Religious Studies. This collection will prove invaluable for students and scholars of theory and method in Religious Studies. It offers readers a unique opportunity to understand the history of key issues in the study of religion and what remains central to the study of religion today. |
| Authors: | Scott S. Elliott |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Religion--Study and teaching, Religion--Methodology |
| Categories: | RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 'Reinventing Religious Studies'offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has been transformed into a critical discipline informed by a wide range of perspectives from sociology to anthropology, politics to material culture, and economics to cultural theory.'Reinventing Religious Studies'brings together key writings which have helped shape scholarship, teaching and learning in the field. All the essays are drawn from the CSSR Bulletin, a provocative, occasionally irreverent, and always critical journal which has long been at the centre of debates in Religious Studies. This collection will prove invaluable for students and scholars of theory and method in Religious Studies. It offers readers a unique opportunity to understand the history of key issues in the study of religion and what remains central to the study of religion today. |
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| ISBN: | 9781844656554 9781844656561 9781317546634 9781317546627 9781315729671 |
