New Approaches to the Study of Religion. / Volume 2, : Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches / / ed. by Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Antes, Peter,; Barrett, Justin L.,; Dobbelaere, Karel,; Fallers Sullivan, Winnifred,; Geertz, Armin W.,; Grimes, Ronald L.,; Gundlach, Helga Barbara,; Hackett, Rosalind I. J.,; Kisala, Robert,; Leopold, Anita Maria,; Linderman, Alf G.,; Martin, Luther H.,; McCance, Dawne,; Newby, Gordon D.,; Paden, William E.,; Vertovec, Steven,; Voyé, Liliane,; Warburton, David A.,; Warne, Randi R.,; Williams, Alan,
• HerausgeberIn: Antes, Peter,; Geertz, Armin W.,; Warne, Randi R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion , 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (497 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Section 4. Textual Approaches
• New Approaches to the Problem of Translation in the Study of Religion
• The Use of Electronic Media in the Study of Sacred Texts
• New Approaches: Literary Theory
• Section 5. Comparative Approaches
• Comparison in the Study of Religion
• New Approaches to the Study of Syncretism
• Performance Theory and the Study of Ritual
• New Approaches to the Study of Religous Dance
• Human Rights: An Important and Challenging New Field for the Study of Religion
• Section 6. Social Sciences
• A Survey of Advances in the Sociology of Religion (1980-2000)
• Assessing Secularization Theory
• Urbanization and Religion
• Religion and Diaspora
• Approaches to the Study of Religion in the Media
• Beyond "Church and State"
• Section 7. Cognition and Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Cognitve Approaches to the Study of Religion
• The Naturalness of Religious Concepts
• Psychoanalyzing Prehistory
• Conclusion
• Backmatter