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Editorial: Discourse analysis in religious studies

, 2013
For some decades there has been dissatisfaction with objectivist definitions of religion and positivist methods of studying religion. However, alternative theories and methods of religious studies so far lack clear conventions.
F. Wijsen
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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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Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion

, 2012
The title of our paper might well be taken as a gloss on that of Freud’s The Future of an Illusion or, perhaps, on that of Dawkins’ The God Delusion . However, our paper is not focused on the theoretical object of the study of religion; rather it is a ...
L. Martin, D. Wiebe
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Discrepancies and Similarities in Attitudes, Beliefs, and Familiarity with Vaccination Between Religious Studies and Science Students in Malaysia: A Comparison Study

Journal of religion and health, 2021
R. Elkalmi, S. Jamshed, Azyyati Mohd Suhaimi   +2 more
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Religious Studies as a Life Science

, 2012
Religious studies assumes that religions are naturally occurring phenomena, yet what has scholarship uncovered about this fascinating dimension of the human condition?
Joseph A. Bulbulia, E. Slingerland
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The objects of American religious studies

, 2012
Disciplinary retrospectives on American religious studies have come over the last several decades to center on a single turning point, a decisive and expansive reformation of the object of scholars’ attentions.
Tracy Fessenden
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Needs and Nonviolent Communication in the Religious Studies Classroom

, 2012
Religious studies classrooms are microcosms of the public square in bringing together individuals of diverse identities and ideological commitments. As such, these classrooms create the necessity and opportunity to foster effective modes of conversation.
Elizabeth N. Agnew
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The Concept of “Korean Religion” and Religious Studies in Korea

, 2012
“Korean Religion” is often thought to be a simple sum of various religion like Shamanism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and “new religions” in Korea.
Chongsuh Kim
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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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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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