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Religious Studies and Religious Practice

2017
Abstract 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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Are Religious Compulsions Religious or Compulsive: A Phenomenological Study

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1984
Religious 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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On Religious Studies and the Rhetoric of Religious Reading

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2001
In 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, 2015
As 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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Teaching Religious Studies

2018
Teaching about religion in American higher education has been shaped by multiple contexts, from the personal and institutional through the national and international. One persistent question concerns the purposes of teaching about religion, from Christian character formation to broad religious literacy as a prerequisite for informed citizenship. As the
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AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1984
The notion of "religious studies" harbors an ambiguity, and presents us with a choice. Ambiguity and choice appear the moment we wish to join the subject with a predicate: Which is the proper copula, is or are? Is religious studies one, or are they many?
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Androcentrism in Religious Studies

The Journal of Religion, 1976
Is scholarship in religious studies androcentric? That the question is being asked is a sign of a profound paradigm shift now underway in Western culture-a shift so basic, so manifold in its ramifications, and so fundamental to human survival that it dwarfs all previous paradigm changes, with a single exception.
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Religious Studies

2010
Introduction 1. Western Europe 2. Eastern Europe 3. North Africa and West Asia 4. Sub-Saharan Africa 5. South and Southeast Asia 6. Continental East Asia 7. Japan 8. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacfic Islands 9. North America 10.
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Psychoanalysis, religious experience, and the study of religion: Not “religious studies”

Critical Research on Religion, 2013
Psychoanalytic critical theory explores the dynamics of individual identity formation within specific cultural contexts. Freud understood that psychoanalysis is a critical social theory as well as a therapeutic practice. His studies on religion illustrate the depths of society and culture within the mind.
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Is Religious Studies Possible?

Religious Studies, 1981
If one were to investigate the underpinnings of religious studies, or, in other words, to undertake a sort of meta-religious studies (a study which would be twice removed from the actual subject matter of the discipline) one would find that the main contemporary criticisms, by both lay students of religion and the academic community at large, have been
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