What Is Religion?: Debating the Academic Study of Religion Hughes Aaron W.
What Is Religion?: Debating the Academic Study of Religion Hughes Aaron W. Controversies over how to define the word religion have persisted for decades. Religion is as much a fuzzy set of…
Specifikacia What Is Religion?: Debating the Academic Study of Religion Hughes Aaron W.
What Is Religion?: Debating the Academic Study of Religion Hughes Aaron W.
Controversies over how to define the word religion have persisted for decades. Religion is as much a fuzzy set of conceptualizations and generalizations about a range of human activities as it is an authorizing system of persons, ideas, and practices.What is Religion?: Debating the Academic Study of Religion invites readers to eavesdrop on scholarly debates over the limits of, and uses for, a word commonly used but infrequently defined in a precise manner. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a concept whose diversity is often its own worst enemy.
Their essays document the current This volume takes the temperature of the modern field of Religious Studies by inviting a diverse group of scholars to offer their own substantive contribution that builds on the shared opening prompt, Religion is....