Mit dem „cultural turn" hat die Religionsforschung eine erhebliche disziplinäre Erweiterung erfahren. In den Kulturwissenschaften hat sich ein weites Spektrum von Theorien und Methoden entwickelt, mit denen die Rolle der Religion in der modernen Welt vermessen wird. Auf der eine…
Mit dem „cultural turn" hat die Religionsforschung eine erhebliche disziplinäre Erweiterung erfahren. In den Kulturwissenschaften hat sich ein weites Spektrum von Theorien und Methoden entwickelt, mit denen die Rolle der Religion in der modernen Welt vermessen wird. Auf der eine…
Religion and the problem of definition -- Functionalism and the hermeneutics of suspicion -- How society works : classification -- How society works : essentialism -- How society works : structure -- How society works : habitus -- How religion works : legitimation -- How religio…
This book seeks to address the need for the academic study of religions to engage with wider issues in the social sciences and humanities about the contested ground of truth and knowledge, highlighted in the debate between modernity and postmodernity.
This book argues that the understanding and explanation of religion is always historically contingent. Grounded in the work of Bakhtin and Ricoeur, Flood positions the academic study of religion within contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities concerning moderni…
Kultur und Religion stehen seit jeher in einem engen Wechselverhältnis: Religion ist vielen Kulturen als wichtiges Symbol- und Wertesystem inhärent und fungiert als bedeutsamer Bestandteil kultureller Identitäten. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Analyse, die für Religion blind ist,…
Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy. This latest book, whose editors were among those who prepared the first two volumes, centers on Popkin's crucial role in bringing together scholars from …
Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy. This latest book, whose editors were among those who prepared the first two volumes, centers on Popkin's crucial role in bringing together scholars from …
"For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. Smith has also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of academic scholarship…
For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. He has also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of academic scholarship on …
