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Understanding religion : theories and methods for studying religiously diverse societies /

"Understanding Religion is a cutting-edge and innovative book that introduces students to interdisciplinary theoretical tools for understanding contemporary religiously diverse societies. Using critical approaches to religion and the politics of scholarship, the book includes coverage of decolo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hedges, Paul (Paul Michael), 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Religion : language, law, and legacies
  • Method : insider-outsider debates, phenomenology, and reflexivity
  • Life : lived religion, syncretism, and hybridity
  • History : historical methodology and the invention of tradition
  • Power : social constructionism, habitus, and authority
  • Identity : social identity theory, in-groups, out-groups, and conflict
  • Colonialism : postcolonialism, orientalism, and decolonization
  • Brains : the cognitive science of religion and beyond
  • Bodies : material religion, embodiment, and materiality
  • Gender : feminism, sexuality, and religion
  • Comparison : comparative and contrastive methodologies practices
  • Ritual : ritualization, myth, and performance ritual
  • Diversity : religious borders, identities, and discourses
  • Dialogue : interreligious discourse and critique
  • Violence : fundamentalism, extremism, and radicalization
  • Secularism : secularization, human rights, and religion
  • Geography : place, the lived environment, and environmentalism
  • Politics : governance, the colonial wound, and the sacred.