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Religious history as religious studies
Religion, 2012What is the relationship between religious studies and religious history? Academic historical thinking emerged in part to repudiate ecclesiastical traditions of history, making the difference between religious history and histories of religion a question of denominational rivalry more than a difference in sect. Scholars working in the academic study of
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British Journal of Psychology, 1962
In an empirical study of religious belief, measures of strength of belief in an Australian student population were compared with beliefs in other areas and with personality and attitudinal variables. The correlation matrix shows that the religious belief measures belong together and that religious belief has its best relationships ...
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In an empirical study of religious belief, measures of strength of belief in an Australian student population were compared with beliefs in other areas and with personality and attitudinal variables. The correlation matrix shows that the religious belief measures belong together and that religious belief has its best relationships ...
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Are Religious Compulsions Religious or Compulsive: A Phenomenological Study
American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1984Religious compulsions in four patients are presented to show the phenomenological similarities and differences between religious and compulsive rituals. The role of religious ritual observance in predisposing to obsessive-compulsive neurosis is discussed and minor modifications in the usual course of behavioral treatment are suggested.
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The Ideology of Religious Studies
1999Abstract This book argues that ‘religion’ is not a genuine analytical category since it does no useful work in helping us to understand the world we live in. While it appears to have something important and meaningful to say about societies and cultures and personal experiences, when one looks at its actual use in a wide spectrum of ...
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Religious Studies and Religious Practice
2017Abstract The academic study of religion uses multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary methods because of the nature of religion and the interaction between religious practice and religious studies. Prior to modernity, the study and practice of religion were integrated and separate disciplines were often assumed to ...
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Contextualization of Religious Studies and of religious phenomena
Religion, 2011The present paper provides a case study from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, describing the changes in the Religious Studies program as a response to institutional pressures, and emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of Cultural Studies as a perspective for the future development of Religious Studies as a discipline and as a ...
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On Religious Studies and the Rhetoric of Religious Reading
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2001In The Politics of Religious Studies (1999) I set out to provide an under standing of Religious Studies as a legitimate academic discipline committed to achieving scientifically respectable knowledge about religion. I maintained, that is, that Religious Studies in the university context must be a social science that must strive, as all scientific ...
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Methods for the Study of Religious Change: From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies
Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2015As the title indicates, even if it does not spell it out, this volume has a double agenda. On the one hand, it advocates replacing the study of religion(s) by the study of (secular) worldview(s)—‘W...
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A semantic study of religious attitude
Journal of Religion and Health, 1966The study reported in this paper deals primarily with religion and gen eral semantics, a combination that makes it out of the ordinary. The fact that it ultimately suggests perennially perplexing questions concerning religion and science, however?and leaves them unanswered?makes it quite ordinary. The latter comment is not by way of apology.
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