Guide to the Study of Religion

by Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon

Book Overview

What is religion? Can it be defined at all? Or is it too easily defined in far too many ways so as to make a "religion" a drifting signifier or whatever one's pleasure is? Does the study of religion require special, perhaps religious, tools of analysis and explanation? What is the difference between a knowledge of religion derived from practicing it and a knowledge about religion derived from nonreligious modes of inquiry? Sooner or later, any serious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304701769
• ISBN13: 9780304701766
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Interesting

There are many good ideas put forth in here. There is plenty to think about. Each essay covers a different aspect of what we call religion. At points it is a bit hard to slog through, but like I say, you will be pondering maybe a few things you never would have thought of.