What Is Religion?
Title | What Is Religion? PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas A. Idinopulos |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004110229 |
Of Religion: BRIAN C. WILSON.
The Concept of Religion
Title | The Concept of Religion PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2015-06-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004299327 |
In The Concept of Religion Hans Schilderman edits a volume on the definition and empirical study of religion within the changing landscape of modern society. Now that we can no longer assume a simple harmony between the scientific concept of religion, church doctrine and practiced belief, issues concerning the definition and measurement of religion are becoming crucial issues to academic institutions. The contributing authors present empirical studies studying issues of lifespan and socialisation at school settings; of vocation and profession at church and hospital settings; and culture and nation of society at large. The volume offers a beautiful sample of the empirical study of religion; a conceptual and illustrative overview of the academic field for students and scholars in religion.
The Pragmatics of Defining Religion
Title | The Pragmatics of Defining Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Jan G. Platvoet |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004115446 |
"The Pragmatics of Defining Religion" is a multidisciplinary volume on the problem of the definition of religion with chapters on the polemics of defining religion in modern contexts, the history of the concept of religion, the methodology of its definition; it includes several definition proposals.
The Pragmatics of Defining Religion
Title | The Pragmatics of Defining Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Platvoet |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 2018-11-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004379096 |
This volume promotes a pragmatic, anti-essentialist and anti-hegemonic approach to the problem of the definition of religion. It argues that definitions of religion are context-bound strategies for pursuing a variety of purposes, extra-academic as well as academic. Religions being immensely varied, complex and multi-functional phenomena, they need to be studied by several academic disciplines from many different perspectives. It is, therefore, legitimate and useful that many definitions of religions are developed. The volume has contributions from scholars in Philosophy of Religion, the Comparative Study of Religions, Anthropology of Religion, Sociology of Religion and Psychology of Religion. It has chapters on the polemics of defining religion in modern contexts, the history of the concept of religion, and the methodology of its definition; it includes several definition proposals.
An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion
Title | An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion PDF eBook |
Author | James Cox |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2010-02-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441171592 |
In this thoroughly revised edition, James Cox provides an easily accessible introduction to the phenomenology of religion, which he contends continues as a foundational method for the academic study of religion in the twenty-first century. After dealing with the problematic issue of defining religion, he describes the historical background to phenomenology by tracing its roots to developments in philosophy and the social sciences in the early twentieth century. The phenomenological method is then outlined as a step-by-step process, which includes a survey of the important classifications of religious behaviour. The author concludes with a discussion of the place of the phenomenology of religion in the current academic climate and argues that it can be aligned with the growing scholarly interest in the cognitive science of religion.
Prescribing the Dharma
Title | Prescribing the Dharma PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Helderman |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2019-02-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1469648539 |
Interest in the psychotherapeutic capacity of Buddhist teachings and practices is widely evident in the popular imagination. News media routinely report on the neuropsychological study of Buddhist meditation and applications of mindfulness practices in settings including corporate offices, the U.S. military, and university health centers. However, as Ira Helderman shows, curious investigators have studied the psychological dimensions of Buddhist doctrine for well over a century, stretching back to William James and Carl Jung. These activities have shaped both the mental health field and Buddhist practice throughout the United States. This is the first comprehensive study of the surprisingly diverse ways that psychotherapists have related to Buddhist traditions. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with clinicians, many of whom have been formative to the therapeutic use of Buddhist practices, Helderman gives voice to the psychotherapists themselves. He focuses on how they understand key categories such as religion and science. Some are invested in maintaining a hard border between religion and psychotherapy as a biomedical discipline. Others speak of a religious-secular binary that they mean to disrupt. Helderman finds that psychotherapists' approaches to Buddhist traditions are molded by how they define what is and is not religious, demonstrating how central these concepts are in contemporary American culture.
Defining Religion
Title | Defining Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cummings Neville |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2018-01-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1438469594 |
In this collection of essays, written over the past decade, Robert Cummings Neville addresses contemporary debates about the concept of religion and the importance of the comparative method in theology, while advancing and defending his own original definition of religion. Neville's hypothesis is that religion is a cognitive, existential, and practical engagement of ultimate realities—five ultimate conditions of existence that need to be engaged by human beings. The essays, which range from formal articles to invited lectures, develop this hypothesis and explore its ramifications in religious experience, philosophical theology, religious studies, and the works of important thinkers in philosophy of religion. Defining Religion is an excellent introduction to Neville's work, especially to the systematic philosophical theology presented in his magisterial three-volume set Philosophical Theology.