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The Cambridge companion to religious studies / edited by Robert A. Orsi.

Contributor(s): Orsi, Robert A
Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge companions to religion: Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: xiv, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521883917 (hardback); 0521883911 (hardback); 9780521710145 (paperback); 0521710146 (paperback)Subject(s): Religion -- Study and teaching | Religion -- ResearchDDC classification: 200 LOC classification: BL41 | .C34 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
On sympathy, suspicion, and studying religion : historical reflections on a doubled inheritance / Leigh E. Schmidt -- Thinking about religion, belief, and politics / Talal Asad -- Special things as building blocks of religions / Ann Taves -- The problem of the holy / Robert A. Orsi -- Social order or social chaos / Michael J. Puett -- Tradition : the power of constraint / Michael L. Satlow -- The text and the world / Anne M. Blackburn -- On the role of normativity in religious studies / Thomas A. Lewis -- Translation / Martin Kavka -- Material religion / Matthew Engelke -- Theology and the study of religion : a relationship / Christine Helmer -- Buddhism and violence / Bernard Faure -- Practicing religions / Courtney Bender -- The look of the sacred / David Morgan -- Reforming culture : law and religion today / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- Sexing religion / R. Marie Griffith -- Constituting ethical subjectivities / Leela Prasad -- Neo-Pentecostalism and globalization / Marla F. Frederick -- Religious criticism, secular critique, and the "critical study of religion" : lessons from the study of Islam / Noah Salomon and Jeremy F. Walton.

On sympathy, suspicion, and studying religion : historical reflections on a doubled inheritance / Leigh E. Schmidt -- Thinking about religion, belief, and politics / Talal Asad -- Special things as building blocks of religions / Ann Taves -- The problem of the holy / Robert A. Orsi -- Social order or social chaos / Michael J. Puett -- Tradition : the power of constraint / Michael L. Satlow -- The text and the world / Anne M. Blackburn -- On the role of normativity in religious studies / Thomas A. Lewis -- Translation / Martin Kavka -- Material religion / Matthew Engelke -- Theology and the study of religion : a relationship / Christine Helmer -- Buddhism and violence / Bernard Faure -- Practicing religions / Courtney Bender -- The look of the sacred / David Morgan -- Reforming culture : law and religion today / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- Sexing religion / R. Marie Griffith -- Constituting ethical subjectivities / Leela Prasad -- Neo-Pentecostalism and globalization / Marla F. Frederick -- Religious criticism, secular critique, and the "critical study of religion" : lessons from the study of Islam / Noah Salomon and Jeremy F. Walton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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