New approaches to the study of religion. / Volume 2, : Textual, comparative, sociological, and cognitive approaches / / edited by Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne.

• Superior document: Religion and reason ; v. 43
• TeilnehmendeR: Antes, Peter, 1942-; Geertz, Armin W., 1948-; Warne, R. R. 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : De Gruyter,, [2004]; 2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and reason ; 43.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (503 pages)

Table of Contents

• Section 4. Textual approaches ; New approaches to the problem of translation in the study of religion / Alan Williams
• The use of electronic media in the study of sacred texts / Gordon D. Newby
• New approaches: Literary theory / Dawne McCance.
• Section 5. Comparative approaches ; Comparison in the study of religion / William E. Paden
• New approaches to the study of syncretism / Luther H. Martin and Anita Maria Leopold
• Performance theory and the study of ritual / Ronald L. Grimes
• New approaches to the study of religious dance / Helga Barbara Gundlach
• Human rights: An important and challenging new field for the study of religion / Rosalind I.J. Hackett.
• Section 6. Social sciences ; A survey of advances in the sociology of religion (1980-2000) / Liliane Voye
• Assessing secularization theory / Karel Dobbelaere
• Urbanization and religion / Robert Kisala
• Religion and diaspora / Steven Vertovec
• Approaches to the study of religion in the media / Alf G. Linderman
• Beyond "Church and State": Advances in the study of religion and law / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.
• Section 7. Cognition and cross-cultural psychology ; Cognitive approaches to the study of religion / Armin W. Geertz
• The naturalness of religious concepts: An emerging cognitive science of religion / Justin L. Barrett
• Psychoanalyzing prehistory: Struggling with the unrecorded past / David A. Warburton
• Conclusion / Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne.