Theory and Method in the Study of Religion Theoretical and Critical Readings

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ISBN: 9780534534745 | 0534534740
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This anthology provides students with a useful collection of theoretical essays concerning the nature of religion and the methodological means by which scholars analytically approach the subject. Organized in a point/counterpoint fashion, this volume will foster in-class discussion and the honing of a student's own critical perspectives.

Preface

Introduction

(14)

Religious Studies as an Academic Discipline

(34)

``The Academic Study of Religion''

(5)

Sam Gill

``Religion and Religious Studies: No Difference at All''

(5)

Jonathan Z. Smith

``Dialogical Fields in Religious Studies''

(6)

Mary Gerhart

``Why the Academic Study of Religion?''

(6)

Donald Wiebe

``Becoming Answerable for What We See''

(7)

Margaret R. Miles

Quest for the Origins of Religion

(51)

From Primitive Culture

(7)

Edward B. Tylor

From The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion and Totemism and Exogamy

(9)

James George Frazer

From Chips from a German Workshop: Essays on the Science of Religion and Introduction to the Science of Religion

(8)

F. Max Muller

From In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion

(6)

Tomoko Masuzawa

From How Natives Think

(11)

Lucien Levy-Bruhl

``I Am a Parrot (Red)''

(5)

Jonathan Z. Smith

Phenomenology and the Science of Religion

100

(57)

From The Idea of the Holy

107

(12)

Rudolf Otto

``Understanding and Teaching Rudolph Otto's The Idea of the Holy,''

119

(5)

Thomas A. Idinopulos

From Religion in Essence and Manifestation

124

(15)

Gerardus van der Leeuw

``An Ambivalent Relationship to the Holy: Gerardus van der Leeuw on Religion''

139

(4)

Richard J. Plantinga

From Dimensions of the Sacred: An Anatomy of the World's Beliefs

143

(7)

Ninian Smart

From The Politics of Religious Studies

150

(7)

Donald Wiebe

History of Religions

157

(52)

From The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

161

(8)

Mircea Eliade

From The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion

169

(3)

Mircea Eliade

``Feminist Anthropology and the Gendering of Religious Studies''

172

(5)

Rosalind Shaw

From Map Is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions

177

(8)

Jonathan Z. Smith

``No Place to Stand: Jonathan Z. Smith as Homo Ludens, The Academic Study of Religion Sub Specie Ludi''

185

(7)

Sam Gill

From Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts

192

(1)

Wendy Doniger

From The Implied Spider: Politics & Theology in Myth

193

(9)

Wendy Doniger

``The Clinging Spider Web of Context: A Review of The Implied Spider by Wendy Doniger''

202

(7)

J. E. Llewellyn

Sociology of Religion

209

(29)

From Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

212

(13)

Emile Durkheim

From Religion Defined and Explained

225

(4)

Peter B. Clarke

Peter Byrne

From The Sociology of Religion

229

(6)

Max Weber

From Max Weber's Vision of History: Ethics, and Methods

235

(3)

Guenther Roth

Anthropology

238

(104)

From Magic, Science, and Religion and Other Essays

245

(12)

Bronislaw Malinowski

From Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses

257

(8)

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

``The Poverty of Functionalism

265

(3)

Hans H. Penner

From The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

268

(9)

Victor Turner

From Fragmentation and Redemption

277

(8)

Caroline Walker Bynum

From The Interpretation of Cultures

285

(13)

Clifford Geertz

From Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

298

(9)

Talal Asad

From Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

307

(9)

Mary Douglas

``Bodies, Natural and Contrived: The Work of Mary Douglas''

316

(9)

Sheldon R. Isenberg

Dennis E. Owen

From Structural Anthropology

325

(7)

Claude Levi-Strauss

From Religion in Relation: Method, Application and Moral Location

332

(10)

Ivan Strenski

Psychology of Religion

342

(97)

From The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Frend and Future of an Illusion

353

(11)

Sigmund Freud

From Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives

364

(6)

Mariana Torgovnick

From Psychology and Religion: West and East

370

(4)

Carl G. Jung

From Resurrecting the Body: Feminism Religion, and Psychotherapy

374

(4)

Naomi R. Goldenberg

From The Varieties of Religious Experience

378

(12)

William James

``Settled Issues and Neglected Questions: How Is Religion to be Studied?''

390

(3)

Susan Thistlethwaite

From Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

393

(11)

Erik H. Erikson

``The Significance of Erikson's Psychology for Modern Understanding of Religion''

404

(5)

Peter Homans

From Violence and the Sacred

409

(9)

Rene Girard

``The Festival in Light of the Theory of the Three Milieus: A Critique of Girard's Theory of Ritual Scapegoating''

418

(9)

Richard Stivers

From Resurrecting the Body: Feminism, Religion, and Psychotherapy

427

(8)

Naomi R. Goldenberg

``Women, Nature and Power: Emancipatory Themes in Critical Theory and Feminist Theology''

435

(4)

Marsha Hewitt

Ecological/Biological Approaches

439

(37)

``Ecology of Religion: Its Scope and Methodology''

444

(6)

Ake Hultkrantz

From Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religion

450

(9)

Walter Burkert

From New Women and New Earth: Sexit Ideologies and Human Liberation

459

(8)

Rosemary Radford Ruether

``Sin, Nature, and Black Women's Bodies''

467

(4)

Delores S. Williams

``Ecological Approaches to the Study of Religion''

471

(5)

Herbert Burhenn

Feminist Perspectives on Religion

476

(72)

From Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

482

(9)

Mary Daly

From Critical Theory of Religion: A Feminist Analysis

491

(6)

Marsha Aileen Hewitt

``Toward a Paradigm Shift in the Academy and in Religious Studies''

497

(9)

Carol P. Christ

``Do Women Really Need a `God/ess' to Save Them? An Inquiry into Notions of the Divine Feminine''

506

(5)

Marsha Aileen Hewitt

From Feminism and Religion: An Introduction

511

(10)

Rita Gross

``Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Feminism and Religion''

521

(10)

Katherine K. Young

From Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk

531

(13)

Delores S. Williams

``From Womanist Thought to Womanist Action''

544

(4)

Peter J. Paris

Poststructural/Postmodern Approaches to Religion

548

(9)

From Theory of Religion

557

(7)

Georges Bataille

``Eroticism, Violence, and Sacrifice: A Postmodern Theory of Religion and Ritual''

564

(9)

Carl Olson

``Nietzsche, Genealogy, History''

573

(6)

Michel Foucault

From The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism

579

(6)

Geoffrey Galt Harpham

``Letter to a Japanese Friend''

585

(2)

Jacques Derrida

Religion

587

(5)

Jacques Derrida

From Hermeneutics as Politics

592

Stanley Rosen

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