Religion and beliefs
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Nothing Could be Further from the Truth
This collection brings together some of the columns written by Reed M. N. Weep and published beginning in 1997 until his disappearance in 2012 in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion and its precursor, the Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion. The columns satirize the aca...
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Contemporary Views on Comparative Religion
Peter Antes, Armin Geertz, Mikael Rothstein
Comparative Religion is deeply rooted in historical-philological studies, but since the inception of the discipline in the late nineteenth century, a continual development has taken place. Since that time, the discipline has moved into many different areas of the social, humanistic, psychological an...
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Fabricating Origins
Fabricating Origins builds on a series of posts that originally appeared, in earlier forms, on the blog "Culture on the Edge." In these posts each member of the group focused on the problem of origins, examining how we repeatedly conjure up an authorized past that suits the needs of the continually...
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New Religiosity in Contemporary Sweden
Peter Akerback, Liselotte Frisk
The contemporary popular or new religious landscape in Sweden - arenas with religious elements outside the established churches - is large and multifaceted. Religion is today expressed in different localities, like retreat centers, health centers and gyms, and can manifest as for, example, healing,...
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Anime, Religion and Spirituality
Katharine Buljan, Carole M Cusack
Barely a century has passed since anime (Japanese animation) was first screened to a Western audience. Over time the number of anime genres and generic hybrids have significantly grown. These have been influenced and inspired by various historical and cultural phenomena, one of which - Japanese nati...
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Chasing Down Religion
Panayotis Pachis, Donald Wiebe
Whether as a historian finding solutions to unresolved problems or as a scientist finding the causes for events and actions, Luther Martin's primary focus has been to get to the roots of the religious impulse in human existence. This collection of essays from scholars of his own generation and from...
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Sects and Stats
A major, perhaps the major, focus of early research on New Religious Movements (NRMs) was on the people who joined. Most of the field's pioneer researchers were sociologists. However, the profile of NRM members had changed substantially by the twenty-first century -- changes largely missed because t...
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Methods for the Study of Religious Change
Andre Droogers, Anton van Harskamp, Kim Knibbe, Peter Versteeg, Rhea Hummel, Martijn de Koning
Andre Droogers, Anton van Harskamp
"This is a highly imaginiative contribution to the study of worldviews." - Grace Davie, University of Exeter The world of religious experience is changing much faster than the discipline which claims to study it. Religious studies still uses Christianity as its measure, still frames the world throug...