Study War No More
The phenomenological method in the study of religions has provided the linchpin supporting the argument that Religious Studies constitutes an academic discipline in its own right and thus that it is irreducible either to theology or to the social sciences. This book examines the figures whom the author regards as having been most influential in creating a phenomenology of religion. Background factors drawn from philosophy, theology and the social sciences are traced before examining the thinking...
It is one of the ironies of our times that, as the practise of religion wanes, a theoretical interest in it on the part of many anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists and philosophers waxes. Among these, only philosophers bring to their task a long history of theological and reli gious relations. Hence their renewed interest has been hailed as a break down of isolationism, heralding, perhaps, a new era of interdisciplinary peace. To celebrate this new ecumenism, a Chicago seminary, consi...
Geschichte Und Probleme Der Religionswissenschaft (Numen Books: Studies in the History of Religions, #53)
Tradition and Future of Islamic Education (Religious Diversity and Education in Europe, #10)
by Wilna A.J. Meijer
From Indifference to Dialogue? (Religious Diversity and Education in Europe, v. 19)
by Olga Schihalejev
Das Thema Gerechtigkeit spielt im Religionsunterricht eine wichtige Rolle. Dieses Heft fur die Klassen 7-10 verbindet die subjektiven Lernherausforderungen von Jugendlichen mit Impulsen aus Bibel, Kirche und Gesellschaft.Wie konnen wir "gerecht" handeln? Und: Was bedeutet "Gerechtigkeit" eigentlich? Das Thema ist auf ganz unterschiedlichen Ebenen eine Herausforderung: Fur die Einzelnen stellt sich die Frage, wie sie Gerechtigkeit einerseits selbst erfahren und andererseits selbst uben konnen. In...
Religious Studies in Ontario
by Harold Remus, Daniel Fraikin, and William Closson James
Most Ontario universities were established by Christian denominations; a Christian ethos was assumed and pervasive, and students were required to take courses designed to teach and inculcate religion. This insightful and comprehensive study demonstrates how, as Ontario society became secularized and pluralistic, so too did universities. Today, religion is again studies in university classrooms but as ""religious studies,"" a relatively new field that reflects the religiously pluralistic nature...
An Analysis of the Christian Principle Love Thy Neighbor with Considerations Concerning Islam in America
by Dr Carly Willeford Dnp
The Sacred and Its Scholars (Numen Books: Studies in the History of Religions, #73)
This book argues that the understanding and explanation of religion is always historically contingent. Grounded in the work of Bakhtin and Ricoeur, Flood positions the academic study of religion within contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities concerning modernity and postmodernity, particularly contested issues regarding truth and knowledge. It challenges the view that religions are privileged, epistemic objects, argues for the importance of metatheory, and presents an argument...
Naming God explores the way gender structures our understanding of that reality which transcends our experience. It is intended to promote reflection and to avoid an adversarial "us versus them" approach by presenting a variety of perspectives, looking at the reasons offered by each and trying to bring them into dialogue.
The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of religion, involving different scales of comparison for different purposes, is both justifiable and necessary. A Magic Still Dwells brings together leading historians of religions from a wide range of ba...