Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 434 pages)
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illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
ISBN:
9780028662909
Serie:
Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks
Inhalt:
chapter 1. The psychology of religion: an overview / William B. Parsons -- chapter 2. The psychology of religion: originative figures / David M. Wulff -- chapter 3. The psychology of religion: historical and contemporary trends / Robert C. Fuller -- chapter 4. Selected topic: spirits in the mind, gods in the brain: contemporary psychologies of religious experience / Marsha Aileen Hewitt -- chapter 5. Criticisms, debates, futures: the psychology of religion and its discontents / Jacob A. Belzen -- chapter 6. The sociology of religion: an overview / Michael O. Emerson -- chapter 7. The sociology of religion: originative figures / Michael P. Carroll -- chapter 8. The sociology of religion: historical and contemporary trends / Ernest Wallwork -- chapter 9. Selected topic: the 'spiritual but not religious' movement / Linda Mercadante -- chapter 10. Criticisms, debates, futures: the sociology of religion or social theory / Russell T. McCutcheon -- chapter 11. The anthropology of religion: an overview / James D. Faubion -- chapter 12. The anthropology of religion: originative figures / Robert A. Segal -- chapter 13. The anthropology of religion: originative figures / Robert A. Segal -- chapter 14. Selected topic: witchcraft, ritual, and gender / Elias Kifon Bongmba -- chapter 15. Criticisms, debates, futures: the anthropology of religion in hybrid human and nonhuman worlds / Paul Christopher Johnson -- chapter 16. The historical method and the study of religion / Bryan S. Rennie -- chapter 17. The historical method and the Hebrew Bible / Matthias Henze -- chapter 18. The historical method and the New Testament / Vernon K. Robbons -- chapter 19. Selected topic: the historical method and feminist hermeneutics / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -- chapter 20. Criticisms, debates, futures: the historical method and cognitive historicism / April D. DeConick.
Inhalt:
This book introduces the study of religion through the lens of social science, covering psychology of religion, sociology of religion, anthropology of religion, and the historical method
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780028662893
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Religion Farmington Hills : Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016]
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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