What Is Religion?

Origins, Definitions, and Explanations
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-11022-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 81, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series

What is Religion? consists of fourteen essays written by a selection of scholars who represent a wide spectrum of approaches to the acedamic study of religion.

Each of the essays is an effort not only to take stock of the present controversy concerning appropriate methodologies for the study of religion, but also to take one giant step beyond that to formulate a precise definition of religion.

Given the considerable confusion today about what it is exactly that religious studies scholars take to be their subject matter when they presume to professionally teachabout religion, this volume provides a much needed forum for leading scholars to debate and clarify what professors of religious studies understand as the central object or objects under their scrunity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Idinopulos

Wilson, Brian C

Weitere Mitwirkende

Crockett, Clayton

Strenski, Ivan

Paden, William

Dicenso, James

Segal, Robert

Pals, Daniel

McCutcheon, Russel

Wiggins, James

Winquist, Charles

Smart, Ninian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas A. Idinopulos, Ph.D., University of Chicago, is Professor of Religious Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His publications include Religion and Reductionism (co-editor, Brill, 1994) and The Sacred and its Scholars (co-editor, Brill, 1996)
Brian C. Wilson, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University.