The ideology of religious studies /
In recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Religious Studies as an Ideology
- 1 Religion, Religions, and World Religions: Religious Studies-A Critique
- 2 Comparative Religion: The Founding Fathers and the Theological Legacy
- 3 Ninian Smart and the Phenomenology of Religion
- 4 Religion, Family Resemblances, and the Use Context
- 5 Religions, Quasi Religions, and Secular Ideologies
- Part II: Religion and India
- 6 Buddhism in India: Ritual, Politics, and Soteriology
- 7 Hinduism
- Part III: Religion and Japan
- 8 Problems of the Category 'Religion' in Japan
- 9 Consrtucting a Collective Identity
- 10 Bowing to the Taxman
- Part IV: Problems With the Category 'Culture'
- 11 Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, and Cultural Anthropology
- 12 The Critique of 'Culture' in Cultural Anthropology.