New Approaches to the Study of Religion: Regional, critical, and historical approachesPeter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi Ruth Warne Walter de Gruyter, 2004 - 559 pages Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches. |
Contents
PETER ANTES ARMIN W GEERTZ and RANDI R WARNE | 1 |
PETER ANTES | 43 |
BÜLENT ŞENAY | 63 |
ABDULKADER TAYOB | 101 |
PRATAP KUMAR | 127 |
GARRY W TROMPF | 147 |
MORNY M | 185 |
JEPPE SINDING JENSEN | 219 |
RUSSELL T MCCUTCHEON | 315 |
MARK HULSETHER | 345 |
DAWSON | 385 |
JEANFRANÇOIS MAYER | 407 |
PETER ANTES | 420 |
New Approaches to the Study of the New Fundamentalisms | 437 |
JØRN BORUP | 451 |
WOUTER J HANEGRAAFF | 489 |
KIRSTEN HASTRUP | 253 |
IVAN STRENSKI | 271 |
LISBETH MIKAELSSON | 295 |
List of Contributors | 521 |
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