series: Religion and Reason

Published by De Gruyter

Religion and Reason

Theory in the Study of Religion

Edited by: Gustavo Benavides, Michael Stausberg and Ann Taves
Founded by: Jacques Waardenburg

ISSN: 0080-0848

Overview
Volumes

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Topics

book: No Bosses, No Gods

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

No Bosses, No Gods

Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion

Matthew Day

Volume 68 in this series

Flagging enrollments. Disappearing majors. Closed departments. The academic study of religion is in trouble. No Bosses, No Gods argues that Karl Marx is essential for reversing course—but it will take letting go of what most scholars think they know about him.

The book’s first half draws on the scholarship of international specialists—as well as new translations of the original German texts—to present Marx the anti-theorist, a political journalist deeply skeptical about what happens when the professoriate sits down to "theorize" about social worlds. The second half appeals to this modified portrait of Marx and charts a new course beyond both actually existing religious studies and contemporary genealogies of the religion category. The result, perhaps, is an academic study of religion worth having in the twenty-first century.

　　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111065540
ISBN:: 9783111065540
ISBN:: 9783111065892
ISBN:: 9783111065090
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Acts of Interpretation

Book 2022

Acts of Interpretation

Ancient Religious Semiotic Ideologies and Their Modern Echoes

Naomi Janowitz

Volume 7 in the series Semiotics of Religion

Volume 66 in this series

Ancient authors debated proper verbal and non-verbal signs as representations of divinity. These understanding of signs were based on ideas drawn from language and thus limited due to a their partial understanding of the multi-functionality of signs. Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics, as adapted by anthropological linguists including Michael Silverstein, better explains the contextual linkages ("performativity") of ancient religious signs such as divine names. Sign meaning is always dependent on processes of interpretation and is always open to reinterpretation. Focusing on these processes permits a more detailed analysis of the ancient evidence. Examples are drawn from ancient Israelite verbal and non-verbal divine representation, the apostle Paul’s linguistic letter/spirit model, Christian debates about the limits of language to best represent the deity, Josephus’ aniconic advertisement of Jewish rites, the multi-layered divine representations in the Dura-Europos synagogue, the diverse "performativity" of Jewish ascent liturgies, and—the single modern example—the role of art at Burning Man. Divine representation is the basis for ritual efficacy even as sign meaning is a constant source of contention.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768602
ISBN:: 9783110768602
ISBN:: 9783110768596
ISBN:: 9783110768626
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Theory of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sign, Method and the Sacred

Book 2021

Sign, Method and the Sacred

New Directions in Semiotic Methodologies for the Study of Religion

Jason Cronbach Van Boom, Thomas-Andreas Põder

Volume 5 in the series Semiotics of Religion

Volume 64 in this series

To what extent can semiotics illuminate key problems in religious studies, given the centrality of symbols, language, and other modes of signification in religion and theology?

The volume explores semiotic methodologies for the study of religion, with an emphasis on their critical and creative reconfigurations. The contributors come from different specialties, such as cognitive science, ethnography, linguistics, communication studies, art studies, religious studies, philosophy of religion, and theology. Part One consists of chapters focusing on theoretical perspectives. Part two focuses on applications in texts and case studies while still considering methodological issues. Many specific traditions and perspectives are taken up, such as C. S. Peirce, A. J. Greimas and the Paris School, Juri Lotman’s semiotics of culture, Bruno Latour and material semiotics, linguistic anthropology, social semiotics, cognitive semiotics, embodied and enactive perspectives on language and mind, semiotics of the image and iconicity, multimodality, intertextuality, and semiotics of colors.

The book provides readers with a succinct overview of how contemporary semiotics can be useful in understanding a broad array of topics in the study of religion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694925
ISBN:: 9783110694925
ISBN:: 9783110694727
ISBN:: 9783110694949
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Sociology of Religion
Subject:: Theory of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mediation and Immediacy

Book 2020

Mediation and Immediacy

A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion

Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle, Massimo Leone

Volume 4 in the series Semiotics of Religion

Volume 62 in this series

Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality. While many traditions hold out the promise of immediate access to the divine, or to some transcendent dimension of experience, such promises depend for their realization as well on the possibility of mediation, which is necessarily conducted through channels of communication and exchange, such as prayers or sacrifices. An understanding of such modes of semiosis is therefore necessary even and especially when mediation is denied by a tradition in the name of the 'ineffability" of the deity or of mystical experience.

This volume models and promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue and cross-cultural perspective on these issues by asking prominent semioticians, historians of religion and of art, linguists, sociologists of religion, and philosophers of law to reflect from a semiotic perspective on the topic of mediation and immediacy in religious traditions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110690347
ISBN:: 9783110690347
ISBN:: 9783110690323
ISBN:: 9783110690354
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Cultural Semiotics
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Theory of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence

Book 2021

Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond

Robert A. Yelle, Jenny Ponzo

Volume 61 in this series

In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars uses history, sociology, anthropology, and semiotics to approach Transcendence as a human phenomenon, and shows the unavoidability of thinking with and through the Beyond. Religious experience has often been defined as an encounter with a transcendent God. Yet humans arguably have always tried to get outside or beyond themselves and society. The drive to exceed some limit or condition of finitude is an eduring aspect of culture, even in a "disenchanted" society that may have cut off most paths of access to the Beyond. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the humanity of Transcendence in various ways: as an effort to get beyond our crass physical materiality; as spiritual entrepreneurship; as the ecstasy of rituals of possession; and as a literary, aesthetic, and semiotic event. These efforts build from a shared conviction that Transcendene is thoroughly human, and accordingly avoid purely confessional and parochial approches while taking seriously the various claims and behavioral expressions of traditions in which Transcendence has been understood in theological terms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688276
ISBN:: 9783110688276
ISBN:: 9783110688221
ISBN:: 9783110688337
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Theory of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Augustine's Theory of Signs, Signification, and Lying

Book 2020

Augustine's Theory of Signs, Signification, and Lying

Remo Gramigna

Volume 3 in the series Semiotics of Religion

Volume 60 in this series

The aim of this study is to present, as far as possible, a general description of the theory of the sign and signification in Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), with a view to its evaluation and implications for the study of semiotics. Accurate studies for subject, discipline, and significance have not yet given an organic and systematic vision of Augustine’s theory of the sign. The underlying aspiration is that such an endeavour will prove to be beneficial to the scholars of Augustine’s thought as well as to those with a keen interest in the history of semiotics.

The study uses Augustine’s own accounts to investigate and interpret the philosophical problem of the sign. The focus lies on the first decade of Augustine’s literary production. The De dialectica, is taken as the terminus ad quo of the study, and the De doctrina christiana is the terminus ad quem. The selected texts show an explicit engagement with poignant discussion on the nature and structure of the sign, the variety of signs and their uses. Although Augustine’s intention never was to establish a theory of meaning as an independent field of study, he largely employed a theory of signs. Thus, Augustine’s approach to signs is intrinsically meaningful.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110596625
ISBN:: 9783110596625
ISBN:: 9783110595772
ISBN:: 9783110593709
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Theory of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council

Book 2019

Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council

A Semiotic Analysis

Jenny Ponzo

Volume 2 in the series Semiotics of Religion

Volume 59 in this series

This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed by Italian writers about the biblical narration of human origins and traditional religious language and ritual, the perceived clash between the immanent and transcendent nature and role of the Church, and the problematic notion of sanctity emerging from contemporary narrative.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110497830
ISBN:: 9783110497830
ISBN:: 9783110496024
ISBN:: 9783110499841
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Italian Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Religion in Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aesthetics of Religion

Book 2017

Aesthetics of Religion

A Connective Concept

Alexandra K. Grieser, Jay Johnston

Volume 58 in this series

This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present diverse material and detailed analysis on descriptive, methodological and theoretical concepts that together explore the potential of an aesthetic approach for investigating religion as a sensory and mediated practice. In dialogue with, yet different from, other major movements in the field (material culture, anthropology of the senses, for instance), it is the specific intent of this approach to create a framework for understanding the interplay between sensory, cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of world-construction. The volume demonstrates that aesthetics, as a theory of sensory knowledge, offers an elaborate repertoire of concepts that can help to understand religious traditions. These approaches take into account contemporary developments in scientific theories of perception, neuro-aesthetics and cultural studies, highlighting the socio-cultural and political context informing how humans perceive themselves and the world around them. Developing since the 1990s, the aesthetic approach has responded to debates in the study of religion, in particular striving to overcome biased categories that confined religion either to texts and abstract beliefs, or to an indisputable sui generis mode of experience. This volume documents what has been achieved to date, its significance for the study of religion and for interdisciplinary scholarship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110461015
ISBN:: 9783110461015
ISBN:: 9783110686333
ISBN:: 9783110458756
ISBN:: 9783110460452
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Anthropology of Religion
Subject:: History of Religion
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Devotion and Artifice

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Devotion and Artifice

Themes of Suspension in the History of Religions

Peter Jackson Rova

Volume 57 in this series

How have humans sought to prevent viable assumptions about themselves and their world from being in force, how does this propensity manifest itself, and in what terms has it been theorized and criticized throughout the ages?

Through a diversity of discrete case-studies spanning a vast time-scale (including topics such as paleolithic personal ornaments, pre-ancient ritual economy, ancient philosophy, and modern artful science), this study explores the means by which humans voluntarily suspend habitual patterns of judgement and disbelief in order to perceive the world differently. In recognizing how such modes of suspension can be variously traced back to religious comportments and institutions, a new sense of religious participation is identified beyond the credulous subjunction to artifice and its critical dismissal.

The relevant outcome of this long-term comparative approach is that sincere devotion to a (practical or theoretical, scientific or spiritual) cause and the temporary affirmation of artifice are not mutually exclusive comportments, but rather genealogically akin to the discretely sacred (alchemical, ataraxic, epistemological, spectacular, thaumaturgic, etc.) concerns of a pre-modern world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110460605
ISBN:: 9783110460605
ISBN:: 9783110459982
ISBN:: 9783110458749
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: History of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Deep History, Secular Theory

Book 2014

Deep History, Secular Theory

Historical and Scientific Studies of Religion

Luther H. Martin

Volume 54 in this series

Over the course of his career, Luther H. Martin has primarily produced articles rather than monographs. This approach to publication has given him the opportunity to experiment with different methodological approaches to an academic study of religion, with updates to and different interpretations of his field of historical specialization, namely Hellenistic religions, the subject of his only monograph (1987). The contents of this collected volume represent Martin's shift from comparative studies, to socio-political studies, to scientific studies of religion, and especially to the cognitive science of religion. He currently considers the latter to be the most viable approach for a scientific study of religion within the academic context of a modern research university. The twenty-five contributions collected in this volume are selected from over one hundred essays, articles, and book chapters published over a long and industrious career and are representative of Martin's work over the past two decades.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515005
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-619-4
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-500-5
ISBN:: 9781614518167
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Subject:: Theory of Religion
Subject:: Secularity and Non-Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: From Deprived to Revived

Book 2013

From Deprived to Revived

Religious Revivals as Adaptive Systems

Mikko Heimola

Volume 53 in this series

It is a truism that religion has to do with social cohesion, but the precise nature of this link has eluded scholars and scientists. Drawing on new research in religiously motivated prosociality, evolution of cooperation, and system theory, this book describes how fluctuations in individuals' strategic environment give impetus to a self-organizatory process where ritual behavior works to alleviate uncertainties in social commitment. It also traces the dynamic roles played by emotions, social norms, and socioeconomic context. While exploring the social functions of ritual and revivalist behavior, the book seeks to avoid the fallacies that result from disregarding their explicit religious character. To illustrate these processes, a case study of Christian revivals in early 19th-century Finland is included. The thesis of the book is relevant to theories of the evolution of religion and the role of religion in organizing human societies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513773
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-454-1
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-377-3
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Denominational Studies, Ecumenism, World Christianity
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Religion in Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Volume 2 Exploring Religions in Motion

Book 2013

Volume 2 Exploring Religions in Motion

Part of the multi-volume work Strategies in the Study of Religions

Volume 52 in this series

These two volumes present Pye’s methodological, theoretical, and field-based interests in the study of religions. Pye understands the study of religions to be an international enterprise with roots in both European and East Asian culture. This relates to his active role in the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), as a former General Secretary and President. The work is presented in seven sections, which could be used in teaching assignments. The first volume begins with a lively introduction on “Methodological Strategies,” followed by “East Asian Starting Points,” a radical attempt to overcome Eurocentrism, and “Structures and Strategies,” which tackles globally significant institutional and ideological questions. The second volume presents selected strands in the study of religions. “Comparing and Contrasting” is followed by “Tradition and Innovation,” including reference to specific new religions. “Transplantation and Syncretism” is a definitive package on syncretism and includes new materials from South-East Asia. Finally, “Contextual Questions” explores wider themes of identity, plurality, dialogue of religions, religious education, and peace. These show how relevant the study of religions can be –when it is distinctly and responsibly defined.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511915
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-250-9
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-191-5
ISBN:: 9781501513190
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Theory of Religion
Subject:: Religion in Asia
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Volume 1 Exploring Methods and Positions

Book 2013

Volume 1 Exploring Methods and Positions

Part of the multi-volume work Strategies in the Study of Religions

Volume 51 in this series

These two volumes present Pye’s methodological, theoretical, and field-based interests in the study of religions. Pye understands the study of religions to be an international enterprise with roots in both European and East Asian culture. This relates to his active role in the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), as a former General Secretary and President. The work is presented in seven sections, which could be used in teaching assignments. The first volume begins with a lively introduction on “Methodological Strategies,” followed by “East Asian Starting Points,” a radical attempt to overcome Eurocentrism, and “Structures and Strategies,” which tackles globally significant institutional and ideological questions. The second volume presents selected strands in the study of religions. “Comparing and Contrasting” is followed by “Tradition and Innovation,” including reference to specific new religions. “Transplantation and Syncretism” is a definitive package on syncretism and includes new materials from South-East Asia. Finally, “Contextual Questions” explores wider themes of identity, plurality, dialogue of religions, religious education, and peace. These show how relevant the study of religions can be –when it is distinctly and responsibly defined.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511892
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-249-3
ISBN:: 978-1-61451-189-2
ISBN:: 9781501513008
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Religion in Asia
Subject:: Religion in Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Play and Power in Religion

Book 2011

Play and Power in Religion

Collected Essays

André Droogers

Volume 50 in this series

At a religion’s margins a counterpoint can be found for its power center. In a creative manner, relatively free from clerical control, religious virtuosos take new initiatives there. Inspired by their experience with the sacred, they explore their liberty to play with meanings, images and practices. Yet, the eventual success of such an innovation calls for organization and thus for the exercise of power. Accordingly new movements slow down into institutions – till a new virtuoso brings the cycle to a fresh start.
Over the last thirty years André Droogers has extensively published on the relation between religion, power and play. In this collection of essays the most relevant articles are reprinted. For this volume Droogers wrote an autobiographical introduction, showing how the contingencies of a career may nevertheless lead to a more or less consistent approach.
In Part I of the book articles are included that represent the basic ideas of Droogers’ approach, with an emphasis on margin, inversion, ritual and meaning-making. In part II some of his articles on syncretism and Pentecostalism illustrate his views. Part III contains articles that apply the play-and-power perspective to methodological issues in the study of religion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110259513
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025950-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025951-3
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Religion, Economy, and Cooperation

Book 2010

Religion, Economy, and Cooperation

Ilkka Pyysiäinen

Volume 49 in this series

Why give money to beggars? Why make sacrifices to help others? The current volume targets such questions with the tools of neoclassical and behavioural economics, philosophy, and sociology of religion. Both religion and economics are analyzed as social institutions that support human intra-group cooperation. Even if individuals are rational maximizers of personal utility, they yet must take into account the reciprocal nature of human relationships. It is better to be part of a cooperative group and make some personal sacrifices because, in the end, everybody benefits from this. Sometimes the metaphor of an invisible hand is used to describe the fact that economic exchange seems to follow some rules that guarantee the best possible result for everyone. In religion, it is of course the hand of God that guides the world. In both cases, individuals are in a way playing against a superior being that always seems to win. In this volume, some of the cognitive mechanisms and cultural selective forces behind this are examined by specialists in different fields of science. The first contributions analyze theoretical and methodological issues; in later chapters, developments in the European history are explored from the perspectives of sociology and economic theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246339
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024632-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-024633-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Sociology of Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Religion in Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Understanding Religion

Book 2009

Understanding Religion

Selected Essays

Benson Saler

Volume 48 in this series

This volume consists of 12 essays published by the author between the years 1997-2007, a thirteenth paper read at a conference in 2006, and a long introduction prepared specifically for the collection. All of the essays deal with epistemological issues attendant on conceptualizing and defining religion, understanding what is likely to be involved in studying and discussing beliefs, and attempting to explain religion and religions by drawing on the contemporary cognitive and evolutionary sciences. The problem of how best to understand and represent the cultural sensitivities of others is addressed by considering the works of three predecessors, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and A. Irving Hallowell.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110218664
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021865-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021866-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Epistemology
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Integrative Religious Education in Europe

Book 2007

Integrative Religious Education in Europe

A Study-of-Religions Approach

Wanda Alberts

Volume 47 in this series

This book is a contribution to the development of the young discipline of the didactics of the Study of Religions (Religionswissenschaft) in international perspective. Integrative religious education refers to education about different religions in classrooms with children of various religious and non-religious backgrounds. Cornerstones of recent debates about theory and methodology in the academic study of religions and in education are discussed in the first chapter. They form the basis of the following analysis and evaluation of current approaches to integrative religious education in Europe, with a special focus on England and Sweden. Particular attention is paid to the different underlying concepts of religion, education and ways of representing religious plurality in these approaches. Building on a discussion of the current situation of teaching and learning about religions in schools in Europe in the context of wider cultural, social and political debates, the book concludes with the suggestion of a framework for integrative religious education in Europe, from a perspective that combines insights from the study of religions and education.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110971347
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019661-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097134-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Christian Education
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Religion in Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Muslims as Actors

Book 2007

Muslims as Actors

Islamic Meanings and Muslim Interpretations in the Perspective of the Study of Religions

Jacques Waardenburg

Volume 46 in this series

This book deals with Islamic studies and with the question how the scholarly study of religion can contribute to the study of Islam. The author advocates studying Islamic phenomena as signs and symbols interpreted and applied in diverse ways in existing traditions.

He stresses the role of Muslims as actors in the ongoing debate about the articulation of Islamic ways of life and construction of Islam as a religion. A careful study of this debate should steer clear of political, religious, and ideological interests. Research in this area by Muslims and non-Muslim scholars alike should address the question of what Muslims have made of their Islam in specific circumstances.

Current political contexts have created an unhealthy climate for pursuing an “open” approach to Islam based on reading, observing, listening and reflecting. Yet, precisely nowadays we need to look anew at ways of Muslim thinking and acting that refer to Islam and to avoid certain schemes of interpreting Muslim realities that are no longer adequate for present-day Muslim life situations.

Muslim recourses to Islam can be studied as human constructions of value and meaning, and relations between Muslims and others can be seen in terms of human interaction, without blame always falling on Islam as such.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913958
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019142-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091395-8
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Culture and Society
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Islam
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Religious Harmony

Book 2006

Religious Harmony

Problems, Practice, and Education. Proceedings of the Regional Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions. Yogyakarta and Semarang, Indonesia. September 27th - October 3rd, 2004.

Michael Pye, Edith Franke, Alef Theria Wasim, Abdurrahman Mas'ud

Volume 45 in this series

It is crucial today to understand how religions can exist harmoniously in a shared environment, whether local or global. A reasoned approach to this question was sought by participants at a stimulating conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) in a predominantly Muslim country, Indonesia. Themes treated include the relation between theoretical approaches and religious viewpoints, practical problems and conflict resolution at the local level, and religious education with special reference to the role of Muslim schools (pesantren) in Indonesia.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110901283
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018847-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-090128-3
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Culture and Society
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Islam
Subject:: Religion in Africa
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: How to do Comparative Religion?

Book 2005

How to do Comparative Religion?

Three Ways, Many Goals

René Gothóni

Volume 44 in this series

Well-known scholars in the study of religions bring up to date and elucidate the discussion on the three most debated approaches in comparative religion, namely, the hermeneutical approach, the explanatory or cognitivist approach, and the critical approach. The approaches and methods of studying religion are disputed in an outspoken and challenging way, critically and radically arguing pros and cons. This work is unique, unrivalled, and full of essential insights into the dialogue of today and of the challenges of tomorrow.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110922608
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018572-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092260-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Volume 2 Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches

Book Print Only 2008

Volume 2 Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches

Part of the multi-volume work New Approaches to the Study of Religion

Volume 43 in this series

Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches. Originally published in 2004, New Approaches are now available as paperback for classroom use.

Also available as a 2 volume set.

ISBN:: 9783110205527
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Volume 2 Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches

Book 2004

Volume 2 Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches

Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne

Part of the multi-volume work New Approaches to the Study of Religion

Volume 43 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211719
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018175-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021171-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Volume 1 Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

Book Print Only 2008

Volume 1 Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

Part of the multi-volume work New Approaches to the Study of Religion

Volume 42 in this series

Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches. Originally published in 2004, New Approaches are now available as paperback for classroom use.

Also available as a 2 volume set.

ISBN:: 9783110205510
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Volume 1 Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

Book 2004

Volume 1 Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

Part of the multi-volume work New Approaches to the Study of Religion

Volume 42 in this series

Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211702
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017698-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021170-2
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Muslims and Others

Book 2003

Muslims and Others

Relations in Context

Jacques Waardenburg

Volume 41 in this series

Jacques Waardenburg writes about relations between Muslims and adherents of other religions. After illuminating various aspects of Islam from an outside point of view in his volume "Islam" (published in 2002 by de Gruyter) his second volume changes the perspective: The author shows how Muslims perceived non-Muslims - particularly Christianity and "the West", but also Judaism and Asian religions - in many centuries of religious dialogue and tensions. The main focus is on Muslim minorities in Western countries and on religious dialogues of which he provides first-hand knowledge through his participation in several important dialogue meetings.

After 50 years of research and personal involvement, Waardenburg aims at a mutual understanding and reconciliation of Islam and other religions, particularly Christianity, both on an international level as well as on a more local level where "old" and "new", Christian and Muslim Europeans live together.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200959
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017627-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020095-9
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Religious Groups
Subject:: History
Subject:: Culture and Society
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2002

Islam

Historical, Social, and Political Perspectives

Jacques Waardenburg

Volume 40 in this series

This book presents some twenty essays on different aspects of Islam in history and the present. These essays are grouped into eight larger sections. The first, "The Beginnings", deals with the transition from pre-Islamic understandings and reason, an essential part of the Quranic message. The next two sections deal with Islam specifically as a religion with its particular signs and symbols. The question of rules of interpretation in Islam and its structural features is discussed here. Sections four and five deal with ethics in Islam, including Muslim identity and human rights, and certain social functions of Islam. Section six introduces some 19th and 20th century reform movements, with special attention given to developments in Saudi Arabia and the "puritan" characteristics of present-day Islamic revival movements. The final two sections discuss contemporary issues: Islamization processes and policies, Islamic ideologies, the ideologization of Islam, and the political uses of religion. Throughout the book the author shows the links between the religious and other interpretations and uses made of Islam and the contexts in which they are made. The Introduction signals some important developments in Islamic studies since World War II.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200942
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017178-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020094-2
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: History
Subject:: Culture and Society
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Islam
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: To the Things Themselves

Book 2001

To the Things Themselves

Essays on the Discourse and Practice of the Phenomenology of Religion

Arvind Sharma, Jacques Waardenburg

Volume 39 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110888447
ISBN:: 9783110169560
ISBN:: 9783110888447
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mapping Islamic Studies

Book 1997

Mapping Islamic Studies

Genealogy, Continuity and Change

Azim Nanji

Volume 38 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110811681
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014187-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081168-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Islam
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought

Book 1990

Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought

Hans G. Kippenberg, Yme B. Kuiper, Andy F. Sanders

Volume 37 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874372
ISBN:: 9783110874372
ISBN:: 9783110121599
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Conscience and the Reality of God

Book 1988

Conscience and the Reality of God

An Essay on the Experiential Foundations of Religious Knowledge

John C. Staten

Volume 36 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110858181
ISBN:: 9783110858181
ISBN:: 9783110105254
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vision, Tradition, Interpretation

Book 1988

Vision, Tradition, Interpretation

Theology, Religion and the Study of Religion

Eric J. Lott

Volume 35 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110855920
ISBN:: 9783110855920
ISBN:: 9783110097610
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: A Structural Analysis of the Sermon on the Mount

Book 1986

A Structural Analysis of the Sermon on the Mount

Andreij Kodjak

Volume 34 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890556
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010833-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089055-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: Synoptic Gospels and Acts
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Poimandres as Myth

Book 1986

The Poimandres as Myth

Scholarly Theory and Gnostic Meaning

Robert A. Segal

Volume 33 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110860115
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010791-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086011-5
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Structuralism and the Biblical Text

Book 1985

Structuralism and the Biblical Text

David C. Greenwood

Volume 32 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110862409
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010336-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-086240-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Struggles of Gods

Book 1984

Struggles of Gods

Papers of the Groningen Work Group for the Study of the History of Religions

Hans G. Kippenberg

Volume 31 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110826135
ISBN:: 9783110826135
ISBN:: 9789027934604
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Ascetic Figures before and in Early Buddhism

Book 1990

Ascetic Figures before and in Early Buddhism

The Emergence of Gautama as the Buddha

Martin G. Wiltshire

Volume 30 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110858563
ISBN:: 978-3-11-009896-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085856-3
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Asia-Pacific
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Islam
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Critical Theory of Religion. The Frankfurt School

Book 1985

The Critical Theory of Religion. The Frankfurt School

From Universal Pragmatic to Political Theology

Rudolf J. Siebert

Volume 29 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859157
ISBN:: 9783110859157
ISBN:: 9783110107296
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vol. 2 The Social Sciences

Book 1985

Vol. 2 The Social Sciences

Part of the multi-volume work Contemporary approaches to the study of religion

Volume 28 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859805
ISBN:: 9783110859805
ISBN:: 9783110098365
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Theory and Method in Religious Studies

Book 1995

Theory and Method in Religious Studies

Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion

Frank Whaling

Volume 27/28 in this series

This paperback edition contains selected articles from the original clothbound editions of Contemporary Approaches to The Study of Religion. Vol I: The Humanities. Vol II: The Social Sciences. (Religion and Reason, 27/28).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110815818
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014254-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081581-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vol. 1 The Humanities

Book 1984

Vol. 1 The Humanities

Part of the multi-volume work Contemporary approaches to the study of religion

Volume 27/1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859799
ISBN:: 9783110859799
ISBN:: 9783110098341
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine

Book 1982

Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine

An Investigation of the Study of Mysticism in World Religions

Philip C. Almond

Volume 26 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823981
ISBN:: 978-90-279-3160-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082398-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Marxist-Leninist 'Scientific Atheism' and the Study of Religion and Atheism in the USSR

Book 1983

Marxist-Leninist 'Scientific Atheism' and the Study of Religion and Atheism in the USSR

James Thrower

Volume 25 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110838589
ISBN:: 978-90-279-3060-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-083858-9
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Culture
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Religion in Europe
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Comparing Religions: A Limitative Approach

Book 1982

Comparing Religions: A Limitative Approach

An Analysis of Akan, Para-Creole, and IFO-Sananda Rites and Prayers

J. G. Platvoet

Volume 24 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110821819
ISBN:: 978-90-279-3170-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082181-9
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Religion and Truth

Book 1981

Religion and Truth

Towards an Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion

Donald Wiebe

Volume 23 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823431
ISBN:: 9783110823431
ISBN:: 9789027931498
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism

Book 1980

Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism

Joaquín Pérez-Remón

Volume 22 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804164
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7987-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080416-4
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Eastern Philosophy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Religion in Africa
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Karl Barth's Christology

Book 1984

Karl Barth's Christology

Its Basic Alexandrian Character

Charles T. Waldrop

Volume 21 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823424
ISBN:: 9783110823424
ISBN:: 9789027931092
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Modern Christian Thinkers and Philosophers of Religion
Subject:: Other 20th-Century Thinkers
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Dogmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Interpretive Theories of Religion

Book 1981

Interpretive Theories of Religion

Donald A. Crosby

Volume 20 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110823356
ISBN:: 9783110823356
ISBN:: 9789027930392
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: On Understanding Islam

Book 1981

On Understanding Islam

Selected Studies

Wilfred C. Smith

Volume 19 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110825800
ISBN:: 978-90-279-3448-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082580-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Arab World
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Subject:: Islam
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Principles of Integral Science of Religion

Book 1979

Principles of Integral Science of Religion

Georg Schmid

Volume 17 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800876
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7864-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080087-6
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Interpretation and Dionysos

Book 1978

Interpretation and Dionysos

Method in the Study of a God

Park McGinty

Volume 16 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110801828
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7844-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080182-8
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Ancient Religions
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Structure and Creativity in Religion

Book 1978

Structure and Creativity in Religion

Hermeneutics in Mircea Eliade’s Phenomenology and New Directions

Douglas Allen, Mircea Eliade

Volume 14 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805529
ISBN:: 9783110805529
ISBN:: 9789027975942
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Reflections on the Study of Religion

Book 1978

Reflections on the Study of Religion

Including an Essay on the Work of Gerardus van der Leeuw

Jacques Waardenburg

Volume 15 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814521
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7604-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081452-1
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Study of Religion and its Meaning

Book 1977

The Study of Religion and its Meaning

New Explorations in Light of Karl Popper and Emile Durkheim

J.E. Barnhart

Volume 12 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110810004
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7762-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081000-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Science of Religion. Studies in Methodology

Book 1979

Science of Religion. Studies in Methodology

Proceedings of the Study Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions, held in Turku, Finland, August 27-31, 1973

Lauri Honko

Volume 13 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110814507
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7782-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081450-7
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Christologies and Cultures

Book 1974

Christologies and Cultures

Toward a Typology of Religious Worldviews

George Rupp

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110879674
ISBN:: 9783110879674
ISBN:: 9789027976413
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Biographical Process

Book 1976

The Biographical Process

Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion

Frank E. Reynolds, Donald Capps

Volume 11 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805833
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7522-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080583-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Religion in Primitive Cultures

Book 1975

Religion in Primitive Cultures

A Study in Ethnophilosophy

Wilhelm Dupré

Volume 9 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870053
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7531-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087005-3
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: The Cardinal Meaning

Book 1973

The Cardinal Meaning

Essays in Comparative Hermeneutics: Buddhism and Christianity

Michael Pye, Robert Morgan

Volume 6 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813654
ISBN:: 978-90-279-7228-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081365-4
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Vol 2 Bibliography

Book Open Access 1974

Vol 2 Bibliography

Part of the multi-volume work Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion

Volume 4 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110800463
ISBN:: 9789027979711
ISBN:: 9783110800463
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Category Formation and the History of Religions

Book 1991

Category Formation and the History of Religions

Robert D. Baird

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110886214
ISBN:: 9783110886214
ISBN:: 9783110128215
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Comparative Studies
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Category formation and the history of religions

Book 1971

Category formation and the history of religions

Robert D. Baird

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111375137
ISBN:: 9783111375137
ISBN:: 9783111017259
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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