| Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z.Smith Contributor(s): Braun, Willi (Author), McCutcheon, Russell T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845532309 ISBN-13: 9781845532307 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $198.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: To mark the contribution of one of the most influential theorists of religion, thirty-one leading scholars of religion from around the world put their minds together to work on problems of introducing "religion": as a category of human social practices, as a term that must be subject to scholarly theorizing, as a subject that must be carefully presented to students in the classroom. The claim of this volume is that the disciplined, cross-cultural and comparative study and teaching of religion in the academy is closely tied to the multi-level task of "introducing" (in the Latin sense of introducere) religion, of taking religion inside the academic discourses in the humanities and social sciences, of taking students - whether career academics or college students - inside religion as a set of ordinary human practices rather than initiating them into a sanctum of extraordinary knowledge about extraordinary things. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 200 |
| LCCN: 2007024530 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (2.05 lbs) 524 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The study of religion encompasses ordinary human social practice and is not limited to the extraordinary or divine. 'Introducing Religion' brings together leading international scholars in the field of religious studies to examine religion as integral to everyday social practice. The book establishes a theoretical framework for the study of religion to analyse prayer, ritual, science, morality and politics in relation to the world's major religions. It will be of interest to students of theory and method in religious studies seeking a clear introduction to the multifaceted nature of religion. |