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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Religious Studies as an Academic Discipline | |
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| "The Academic Study of Religion" | |
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| "Religion and Religious Studies: No Difference at All" | |
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| "Dialogical Fields in Religious Studies" | |
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| "Why the Academic Study of Religion?" | |
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| "Becoming Answerable for What We See" | |
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| Quest for the Origins of Religion | |
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| from Primitive Culture | |
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| from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion and Totemism and Exogamy | |
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| from Chips from a German Workshop: Essays on the Science of Relgion and Introduction to the Science of Religion | |
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| Counterpoint: Tomoko Masuzawa, from In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion | |
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| from How Natives Think | |
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| Counterpoint: Jonathan Z. Smith, "I Am a Parrot (Red)" | |
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| Phenomenology and the Science of Religion | |
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| from The Idea of the Holy | |
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| Counterpoint: Thomas A. Idinopulos, "Understanding and Teaching Rudolph Otto's The Idea of the Holy," | |
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| Ffom Religion in Essence and Manifestation | |
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| Counterpoint: Richard J. Plantinga, "An Ambivalent Relationship to the Holy: Gerardus van der Leeuw on Religion" | |
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| from Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World's Beliefs | |
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| Counterpoint: Donald Wiebe, from The Politics of Religious Studies | |
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| History of Religions | |
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| from The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion | |
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| from The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion | |
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| Counterpoint: Rosalind Shaw, "Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies" | |
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| from Map Is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions | |
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| Counterpoint: Sam Gill, "No Place to Stand: Jonathan Z. Smith as Homo Ludens, The Academic Study of Religion Sub Specie Ludi" | |
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| from Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts | |
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| from The Implied Spide: Politics & Theology in Myth | |
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| Counterpoint: J. E. Llewellyn, "The Clinging Spider Web of Context: A Review of The Implied Spider by Wendy Doniger" | |
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| Sociology of Religion | |
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| from Elementary Forms of the Religious Life | |
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| Counterpoint: Peter B. Clarke and Peter Byrne, from Religion Defined and Explained | |
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| from The Sociology of Religion | |
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| Counterpoint: Guenther Roth From Max Weber's Vision of History: Ethics, and Methods | |
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| Anthropology | |
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| from Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays | |
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| from Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses | |
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| Counterpoint: Hans H. Penner, "The Poverty of Functionalism" | |
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| from The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure | |
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| Counterpoint: Caroline Walker Bynum, from Fragmentation and Redemption | |
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| from The Interpretation of Cultures | |
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| Counterpoint: Talal Asad, From Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam | |
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| from Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo | |
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| Counterpoint: Sheldon R. Isenberg and Dennis E. Owen, "Bodies, Natural and Contrived: The Work of Mary Douglas" | |
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| from Structural Anthropology | |
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| Counterpoint: Ivan Strenski, From Religion in Relation: Method, Application and Moral Location | |
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| Psychology of Religion | |
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| from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud and Future of an Illusion | |
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| Counterpoint: Mariana Torgovnick, from Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives | |
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| from Psychology and Religion: West and East | |
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| Counterpoint: Naomi R. Goldenberg, from Resurrecting the Body: Feminism Religion, and Psychotherapy | |
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| from The Varieties of Religious Experience | |
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| Counterpoint, Susan Thistlethwaite, "Settled Issues and Neglected Questions: How Is Religion to be Studied?" | |
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| from Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History | |
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| Counterpoint: Peter Homans, "The Significance of Erikson's Psychology for Modern Understanding of Religion" | |
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| from Violence and the Sacred | |
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| Counterpoint: Richard Stivers, "The Festival in Light of the Theory of the Three Milieus: A Critique of Girard's Theory of Ritual Scapegoating" | |
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| from Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion, and Psychotherapy | |
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| Counterpoint: Marsha Hewitt, "Women, Nature and Power: Emancipatory Themes in Critical Theory and Feminist Theology" | |
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| Ecological/Biological Approaches | |
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| "Ecology of Religion: Its Scope and Methodology" | |
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| from Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religion | |
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| from New Women and New Earth: Sexist Ideologies and Human Liberation | |
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| "Sin, Nature, and Black Women's Bodies" | |
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| Counterpoint: Herbert Burhenn, "Ecological Approaches to the Study of Religion" | |
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| Feminist Perspectives on Religion | |
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| from Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism | |
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| Counterpoint: Marsha Aileen Hewitt, from Critical Theory of Religion: A Feminist Analysis | |
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| "Toward a Paradigm Shift in the Academy and in Religious Studies" | |
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| Counterpoint: Marsha Aileen Hewitt, "Do Women Really Need a `God/ess' to Save Them? An Inquiry into Notions of the Divine Feminine" | |
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| from Feminism and Religion: An Introduction | |
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| Counterpoint: Katherine K. Young, "Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Feminism and Religion" | |
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| from Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk | |
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| Counterpoint: Peter J. Paris, "From Womanist Thought to Womanist Action" | |
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| Poststructural/Postmodern Approaches to Religion | |
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| from Theory of Religion | |
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| Counterpoint: Carl Olson, "Eroticism, Violence, and Sacrifice: A Postmodern Theory of Religion and Ritual" | |
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| "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" | |
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| Counterpoint: Geoffrey Galt Harpham, from The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism | |
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| "Letter to a Japanese Friend" | |
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| Religion | |
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| Counterpoint: Stanley Rosen, from Hermeneutics as Politics | |