The Critical Study of Non-Religion

The Critical Study of Non-Religion
Title The Critical Study of Non-Religion PDF eBook
Author Christopher R. Cotter
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 265
Release 2020-08-06
Genre Religion
ISBN 1350095249

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This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of extensive research in Edinburgh's Southside which blurs the boundary between 'religion' and 'non-religion'. In doing so, Cotter demonstrates that these are dynamic subject positions, and phenomena can occupy both at the same time, or neither, depending on who is doing the positioning, and what issues are at stake. This book details an approach that avoids constructing 'religion' as in some way unique, whilst also fully incorporating 'non-religious' subject positions into religious studies. It provides a rich engagement with a wide variety of theoretical material, rooted in empirical data, which will be essential reading for those interested in critical, sociological and anthropological study of the contemporary non-/religious landscape.

The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
Title The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies PDF eBook
Author Robert A. Orsi
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 443
Release 2012
Genre Religion
ISBN 0521883911

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Informative and provocative, this book introduces readers to debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggests future research possibilities.

Religion and the New Atheism

Religion and the New Atheism
Title Religion and the New Atheism PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 269
Release 2010-06-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9004190538

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The term “new atheism” has been given to the recent barrage of bestselling books written by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and others. These books and their authors have had a significant media presence and have only grown in popularity over the years. This book brings together scholars from religious studies, science, sociology of religion, sociology of science, philosophy, and theology to engage the new atheism and place it in the context of broader scholarly discourses. This volume will serve to contextualize and critically examine the claims, arguments and goals of the new atheism so that readers can become more informed of some of the debates with which the new atheists inevitably and, at times unknowingly, engage. Contributors include Richard Harries, Reza Aslan, Amarnath Amarasingam, Robert Platzner, Jeffrey Robbins, Christopher Rodkey, Rory Dickson, Steve Fuller, William Sims Bainbridge, William A. Stahl, Stephen Bullivant, Michael Borer, Richard Cimino, Christopher Smith, Gregory R. Peterson, Jeff Nall, Ryan Falcioni, and Mark Vernon. Studies in Critical Research on Religion, vol. 1

The Critical Study of Non-Religion

The Critical Study of Non-Religion
Title The Critical Study of Non-Religion PDF eBook
Author Christopher R. Cotter
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 332
Release 2020-07-09
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1350095265

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This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of extensive research in Edinburgh's Southside which blurs the boundary between 'religion' and 'non-religion'. In doing so, Cotter demonstrates that these are dynamic subject positions, and phenomena can occupy both at the same time, or neither, depending on who is doing the positioning, and what issues are at stake. This book details an approach that avoids constructing 'religion' as in some way unique, whilst also fully incorporating 'non-religious' subject positions into religious studies. It provides a rich engagement with a wide variety of theoretical material, rooted in empirical data, which will be essential reading for those interested in critical, sociological and anthropological study of the contemporary non-/religious landscape.

Critical Terms for Religious Studies

Critical Terms for Religious Studies
Title Critical Terms for Religious Studies PDF eBook
Author Mark C. Taylor
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 446
Release 1998-08-15
Genre Reference
ISBN 9780226791562

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Following in the very successful tradition of Critical Terms for Literary Studies and Critical Terms for Art History, this book attempts to provide a revitalized, self-aware vocabulary with which this bewildering religious diversity can be accurately described and responsibly discussed. Leading scholars working in a variety of traditions demonstrate through their incisive discussions that even our most basic terms for understanding religion are not neutral but carry specific historical and conceptual freight.

The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity

The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity
Title The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity PDF eBook
Author Lene Kühle
Publisher BRILL
Pages 327
Release 2018-06-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 900436711X

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Drawing on international and thematic case studies, The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity asks its readers to pay attention to the assumptions and processes by which scholars, religious practitioners and states construct religious diversity. The study has three foci: theoretical and methodological issues; religious diversity in non-Western contexts; and religious diversity in social contexts. Together, these trans-contextual studies are utilised to develop a critical analysis exploring how agency, power and language construct understandings of religious diversity. As a result, the book argues that reflexive scholarship needs to consider that the dynamics of diversification and homogenisation are fundamental to understanding social and religious life, that religious diversity is a Western concept, and that definitions of ‘religious diversity’ are often entangled by and within dynamic empirical realities. Contributors are: Martin Baumann, Peter Beyer, Jørn Borup, Paul Bramadat, Marian Burchardt, Henrik Reintoft Christensen, Andrew Dawson, Mar Griera, Anna Halafoff, William Hoverd, Lene Kühle, Mar Marcos, Stefania Travagnin, and Andreas Tunger-Zanetti.

The Ideology of Religious Studies

The Ideology of Religious Studies
Title The Ideology of Religious Studies PDF eBook
Author Timothy Fitzgerald
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 291
Release 2003-10-16
Genre Religion
ISBN 0195347153

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In recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India and Japan, and through a detailed analysis of the use of religion in a wide range of scholarly texts, the author maintains that the comparative study of religion is really a form of liberal ecumenical theology. By pretending to be a science, religion significantly distorts socio-cultural analysis. He suggest, however, that religious studies can be re-represented in a way which opens up new and productive theoretical connections with anthropology and cultural and literary studies.