Religion : empirical studies : a collection to mark the 50th anniversary of the British Association for the Study of Religions / edited by Steven Sutcliffe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Qualitative empirical methodologies : an inductive argument / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- Phenomonology, fieldwork and folk religion / Marion Bowman -- Media, meaning, and method in the study of religion / Chris Arthur -- How to study religious experience in the traditions / Peter Antes -- 'The sacred' as a viable concept in the contemporary study of religions / Terence Thomas -- The sense and nonsense of 'community' : a consideration of contemporary debates about community and culture by a scholar of religion / Kim Knott -- Chosen people : the concept of diaspora in the modern world / Gerrie ter Haar -- Study of religions : the new queen of the sciences? / Brian Bocking -- Religious experience in early Buddhism? / Richard Gombrich -- Religion, gender and dharma : the case of the widow aescetic / Miranda Aldhouse-Green -- A Buddhist-Christian encounter in Sri Lanka : Panadura vada / Ria Kloppenberg -- Religion and community in indigenous contexts / Armin W. Geertz -- African spirituality, religion and innovation / Elizabeth Amoah -- Unificationism: a study in religious syncretism / George Chryssides -- Multiculturalism, Muslims and the British state / Tariq Modood -- Afterword: Separating religion from the "sacred" : methodological agnosticism and the future of religious studies / James L. Cox.