The Brill dictionary of religion

Author(s)

• Stuckrad, Kocku von
• Barr, Robert R.

Bibliographic Information

The Brill dictionary of religion

edited by Kocku von Stuckrad ; translated from the German by Robert R. Barr

Brill, 2006

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

Other Title

Metzler Lexikon Religion

Note

"Revised edition of Metzler Lexikon Religion edited by Christoph Auffarth, Jutta Bernard and Hubert Mohr"

Vol. 1. A-D -- v. 2. E-L -- v. 3. M-R -- v. 4. S-Z

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The new and impressively comprehensive Brill Dictionary of Religion addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. Richly illustrated and with more than 500 entries, the dictionary is a multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment. It is unusual in that it not only addresses the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions but it also gives equal weight and consideration to a multiplicity of other religious phenomena. People perceive and express religious experiences in many different ways: through dance, sensuality, in relations between sexes and in compassion at death. Religions help determine how people form and perceive their identity as part of a social group. The diverse effects of religions can also be perceived in the environment, society and the public sphere. The Brill Dictionary of Religion helps map out and define the networks and connections created by various religions in contemporary societies, and provides models for understanding these complex phenomena.

Table of Contents

Selection of entries: Aborigines Abortion / Contraception Academic Study of Religion Advertising Africa Afro-American Religions Afro-Caribbean Religions Age Agrarian Religion / Agrarian Magic Altar Amazons Amulet Anarchism Ancestors Ancient East Angel Animal i: Hunting Societies Animal ii: World Religions Animism Antichrist Anti-Cult Movements Antiquity Anti-Semitism Apartheid Apocalypse Apologetics Apostasy Apostle Archaism Architecture, Sacred Aristotelianism Ars Moriendi Art / Aesthetics Art Religion Asceticism Ascona / Monte Verita Ashram Astrology (Western) Asylum Atheism Atlantis Augustine Authority Baha'i Baptism Baptists Benares (Ban aras, V ar anas i) Bible Bioethics Biography / Autobiography Birth Blasphemy Blessing Blood Body Book Bosnia-Herzegovina Boundary Breathing Buddha Buddhism Calendar California Cannibalism Canon / Canonization

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• NCID: BA7510344X
• ISBN:
  • 9004124330
  • 9004124292
  • 9004124306
  • 9004124314
  • 9004124322
• LCCN: 2005058218
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v. (xxxvi, 2100 p., [44] p. of plates)
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BL31
  • DC22 : 200/.3
  • NDC9 : 160.3
  • NDLC : HK2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Religion -- Dictionaries