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Religion, Theory, Critique – Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies

Autor Richard King
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2017
Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. It is the first textbook which seeks to engage discussion of classical approaches with contemporary cultural and critical theories.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231145435
ISBN-10: 0231145438
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 46 mm
Greutate: 1.09 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press

Notă biografică

Richard King is professor of Buddhist and Asian studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of Early Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism (1995); Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India, and the ¿Mystic East¿ (1999); Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought (1999); and Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion (2004, with Jeremy Carrette).

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Copernican Turn in the Study of Religion, by Richard King
Part 1: Historical Foundations/Genealogies
2. Nominalist "Judaism" and the Late-Ancient Invention of Religion, by Daniel Boyarin
3. Bible/Religion/Critique, by Ward Blanton and Yvonne Sherwood
4. Hegel: On Secularity and the Religion-Making Machine, by Arvind Mandair
5. Friedrich Max Müller and the Science of Religion, by Lourens van den Bosch
6. Classic Comparative Theology and the Study of Religion, by Hugh Nicholson
7. Religion, Religious Studies, and Shinto in Modern Japan, by Jun'ichi Isomae
Part 2: The Enlightenment Critique of Religion
8. David Hume on Religion, by Randall Styers
9. Feuerbach on Religion, by Jay Geller
10. Nietzsche: Life, Works, Reception, by Tyler Roberts
11. Sigmund Freud on Religion, by Volney Gay
12. Karl Marx on Religion, by Terry Rey
13. "Religion" in the Writings of the New Atheists, by Tina Beattie
Part 3: Religion Beyond the West
14. Indigenous African Traditions as Models for Theorizing Religion, by Edward P. Antonio
15. Zongjiao and the Category of Religion in China, by Ya-pei Kuo
16. Islamic D?n as an Alternative to Western Models of "Religion", by Ahmet T. Karamustafa
17. Translation, by Arvind Mandair
Part 4: Religion as Experience
18. The Psychology of Religion, by Jeremy Carrette
19. William James and the Study of Religion: A Critical Reading, by Jeremy Carrette and David Lamberth
20. Rudolf Otto and the Idea of the Holy, by Gregory Alles
21. Jung on Religion, by Volney Gay
22. Religion and the Brain: Cognitive Science as a Basis for Theories of Religion, by Ilkka Pyysiäinen
23. A Critical Response to Cognitivist Theories of Religion, by Steven Engler and Mark Quentin Gardiner
Part 5: Religion, Language, and Myth
24. "Religion" in Anglo-American (Analytical) Philosophy of Religion, by Ludger Viefhues-Bailey
25. Structuralist Linguistics and Structuralist Theories of Religion, by Volney Gay
26. Imagining, Manufacturing, and Theorizing Myth: An Overview of Key Theories of Myth and Religion, by Daniel Dubuisson
Part 6: Religion/Society/Culture
27. The Origins of the Sociology of Religion: The Problem of "Religion" and "Religions" in Classical Sociology, by Bryan S. Turner
28. Contemporary Social Theory and Religion: The Misconstrual of Religion in Theories of "Second" Modernity, by Simon Speck
29. Classical Anthropological Theories of Religion, by Randall Styers
30. Defining Religion: Geertz and Asad, by Jon P. Mitchell
31. Religion, Media, and Cultural Studies, by Richard Fox
Part 7: Religion, Ritual, and Action
32. Classic Ritual Theories, by Ulrike Brunotte
33. The Myth-Ritual Debate, by Ulrike Brunotte
34. From Ritual to Ritualization, by Jon P. Mitchell
35. Religion and Theories of Action, by Kocku von Stuckrad
Part 8: The Phenomenology of Religion and Its Critics
36. Phenomenology of Religion: The Philosophical Background, by Charles E. Scott
37. The Phenomenology of Religion, by James L. Cox
38. Mircea Eliade, by Gregory Alles
39. Critical Responses to Phenomenological Theories of Religion: What Kind of Category Is "Religion"?, by William Arnal
40. Critical Religion: "Religion" Is Not a Stand-Alone Category, by Timothy Fitzgerald
Part 9: Religion and Contemporary European Thought
41. Post-Marxism and Religion, by Nelson Maldonado-Torres
42. Pierre Bourdieu on Religion, by Terry Rey
43. Jacques Derrida on Religion, by Ellen Armour
44. Foucault and the Study of Religion, by Jeremy Carrette
45. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and the "Return of the Religious", by Randall Styers
Part 10: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
46. Feminist Approaches to the Study of Religion, by Darlene Juschka
47. French Feminism and Religion, by Morny Joy
48. Queer Theory Meets Critical Religion: Are We Starting to Think Yet?, by Naomi R. Goldenberg
Part 11: Religion, Coloniality and Race
49. Religion, Modernity, and Coloniality, by Nelson Maldonado-Torres
50. Apartheid Comparative Religion in South Africa, by David Chidester
51. Theorizing Race and Religion: Du Bois, Cox, and Fanon, by William David Hart
52. Black Cultural Criticism, the New Politics of Difference, and Religious Criticism, by Victor Anderson
53. Theorizing Black Religious Studies: A Genealogy, by Victor Anderson
Part 12: Religion/Nation/Globalization
54. Religion and Violence, by William T. Cavanaugh
55. Religion and Economy, by Gregory Alles
56. Globalization and Religion, by Jeremy Carrette
List of Contributors
Index