Religion : empirical studies /: empirical studies. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steven Sutcliffe.
• Other Names: Sutcliffe, Steven, 1961-
• Contents: Introduction: Qualitative empirical methodologies : an inductive argument / Steven J. Sutcliffe -- Phenomonology, fieldwork and folk religion / Marion Bowman -- Media, meaning, and method in the study of religion / Chris Arthur -- How to study religious experience in the traditions / Peter Antes -- 'The sacred' as a viable concept in the contemporary study of religions / Terence Thomas -- The sense and nonsense of 'community' : a consideration of contemporary debates about community and culture by a scholar of religion / Kim Knott -- Chosen people : the concept of diaspora in the modern world / Gerrie ter Haar -- Study of religions : the new queen of the sciences? / Brian Bocking -- Religious experience in early Buddhism? / Richard Gombrich -- Religion, gender and dharma : the case of the widow aesthetic / Miranda Aldhouse-Green -- A Buddhist-Christian encounter in Sri Lanka : Panadura vada / Ria Kloppenberg -- Religion and community in indigenous contexts / Armin W. Geertz -- African spirituality, religion and innovation / Elizabeth Amoah -- Unificationism: a study in religious syncretism / George Chryssides -- Multiculturalism, Muslims and the British state / Tariq Modood -- Afterword: Separating religion from the "sacred" : methodological agnosticism and the future of religious studies / James L. Cox.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 200/.71; Religion -- Study and teaching; Religion -- Étude et enseignement; Religion -- Study and teaching; Godsdienstwetenschap; Methodologie; Onderzoeksmethoden
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351904810; 1351904817
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