Religion studieren ist eine Einfuhrung in das Studium der Religionswissenschaft. Sie untersucht, welche analytischen Fahigkeiten fur das Studium der als Religionen bezeichneten Verhaltensweisen und Institutionen notwendig sind. Ihr geht es…

The essays in A Modest Proposal on Method, three of which are new, further document failings in the study of religion but offers practical suggestions for reinventing the field.

Reflecting on how, despite our supposed advances, little has changed in the study of religion over the recent decades, this collection of essays offers practical advice for those interested in…

‘Introducing Religion’ brings together leading international scholars in the field of religious studies to examine religion as integral to everyday social practice.

This Reader presents writings from both those who assume the existence and possible universality of religious experience and those who question the very rhetoric of experience .

The volume documents the role that the late Jonathan Z. Smith’s work has played, while providing a basis for further considering the future direction of the field.

This book is the first of a two-volume work that seeks to transform the study of religion by offering a radically critical perspective. It does so by providing a succinct…

Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion presents a provocative critique of the unwillingness of modern scholars to publically distinguish research into comparative religion from confessional studies written…