Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies

Name: Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
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ISBN: 9780521710145

ISBN-10: 0521710146

ISBN-13: 9780521710145

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert A. Orsi

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List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.90" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Introduction




Religion and Religious Studies: The Irony of Inheritance



On sympathy, suspicion, and studying religion: historical reflections on a doubled inheritance




Thinking about religion, belief and politics




Special things as building blocks of religions




The problem of the holy




Major Theoretical Problems



Social order or social chaos




Tradition: the power of constraint




The text and the world




On the role of normativity in religious studies




Translation




Material religion




Theology and the study of religion: a relationship




Methodological Variations



Buddhism and violence




Practicing religions




The look of the sacred




Reforming culture: law and religion today Winnifred




Sexing religion




Constituting ethical subjectivities




Neo-Pentecostalism and globalization




Religious criticism, secular critique, and the 'critical study of religion': lessons from the study of Islam