What is religion?

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What is religion?

Jeppe Sinding Jensen

Routledge, 2020

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-163) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Starting from the premise that religion is a human endeavour that can be analysed and compared across time and cultures, What Is Religion? brings the most up-to-date scholarship to bear on humankind's most enduring creation. Religious belief is one of the most pervasive and ubiquitous characteristics of human society. Religion has influenced human lives since prehistoric times, shaping the world views of cultures from isolated tribes to vast empires. The book opens with a brief history of the idea of religion, then divides the study of religion into four essential topics - types, representations, practices and institutions - and concludes with a final, eye-opening chapter on religion today. Packed with case studies from a wide range of religions, past and present, What Is Religion? offers a very current, comprehensive, yet intellectually challenging, overview of the history, theories, practices and study of religion. Thoroughly updated throughout, this second edition provides an accessible, wide-ranging, engaging and concise book for undergraduate students in the study of religion. It is also invaluable for students of anthropology, history, psychology, sociology and theology as well as anyone interested in how and why humans became and continue to be religious.

目次

Preface: what is this thing called religion? 1 Introduction: some ideas about religion 2 A very short history of the idea of religion 3 Types and elements of religion 4 Beliefs, ideas and representations 5 Religious practices and behaviours, also known as "ritual" 6 Institutions: ethics, morality and norms in religion 7 Religion today: modernity, postmodernity and secularisation 8 A brief conclusion

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB28758360
  • ISBN
    • 9781138586345
  • LCCN
    2019007866
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 168 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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