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Religious studies, religious education and the aims of education

, 2015
This article interacts with a recent article by Denise Cush and Catherine Robinson in which they call for a new dialogue between religious studies in universities and religious education, and identify a number of developments in religious studies that ...
L. Barnes
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Christian Origins and Religious Studies

, 2015
This essay reflects on the relationship between the study of the origins of Christianity and the discipline of Religious Studies in conversation with William Arnal’s “What Branches Grow out of this Stony Rubbish?
A. Reed
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Religious Studies on the Internet

The Reference Librarian, 2000
Summary Religious Studies is the “objective” side of human involvement with religion. One might believe or not believe the teachings presented, though it is hoped that the presentation is honest and fair. It can be maintained, however, that there is always a “subjective” element present when it comes to the relationship of people to God, or the gods or
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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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Contextualization of Religious Studies and of religious phenomena

Religion, 2011
The 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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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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Making space for discursive study in religious studies

, 2013
This article demonstrates the potential relevance of a discursive study of religion for Religious Studies. It outlines the main assumptions, questions, materials and methodical guidelines of a discursive study of religion and argues that the ...
T. Taira
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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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Africana Religious Studies: Toward a Transdisciplinary Agenda in an Emerging Field

, 2013
Our position in this essay is provisional and dialogical as we hope to begin a conversation that will inspire productive exchange and innovative agendas for the future of Africana religious studies.
Dianne M. Tracey E. Stewart Diakité, Tracey E. Hucks   +1 more
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Hope and well-being in vulnerable contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic: does religious coping matter?

Journal of Positive Psychology, 2020
To identify potential protective mechanisms that might buffer the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being, the current set of studies (N Study 1 = 1172, N Study 2 = 451) examined the roles of hope and religious coping (positive and negative) in ...
V. Counted, K. Pargament, A. O. Bechara, S. Joynt, R. Cowden   +4 more
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