Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion : : Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995 /

Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion : : Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995 / / edited by Armin Geertz, Russel McCutcheon.

This volume collects select papers on methodology in the study of religion that were originally presented at the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, held in Mexico City in 1995. Granted the status of adjunct proceedings for the Congress, the collection open...

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International Association for the History of Religions. Congress
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Geertz, Armin,
McCutcheon, Russel,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
Year of Publication:2000
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • PREFACE
  • I. Introduction
  • The role of method and theory in the IAHR
  • The history of religion and the study of religion in Mexico
  • II. Challenges in methodology
  • Global perspectives on methodology in the study of religion
  • Political motivations in the development of the academic study of religions in Britain
  • Observations on the scholarly study of religions as pursued in some Muslim countries
  • Beyond a god's eyeview: Alternative perspectives in the study of religion
  • Overcoming barriers to a cognitive psychology of religion
  • Orthosyncretism: An account of melding in religion
  • III. Reflections on categories for the study of religion
  • Categorizing religion
  • What is it that we call 'religion'? Analyzing the epistemological status of the sacred as a scholarly category in comparative religion
  • Sacred order
  • The meaning of experience: Theoretical dilemmas in depicting a Peruvian Curandera's philosophy of healing
  • Power and periphery: Studies of gender and religion in Africa
  • The formation of gendered world views and gender ideology
  • Fundamentalism: A western term with consequences
  • Reflections upon the concept of "new religious movement"
  • Of religious syncretism, comparative religion and spiritual quests
  • IV. Review symposium: Benson Saler's Conceptualizing Religion
  • The definition of religion: An analytical or hermeneutical task?
  • Taming ethnocentrism and trans-cultural understandings
  • Prototypes: Western or cross-cultural?
  • Problems with the family resemblance approach to conceptualizing religion
  • Conceptualizing religion: Responses
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects.

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