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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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A STUDY OF RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES OF THE ELDERLY

Age and Ageing, 1978
A study is reported of the religious beliefs, attitudes, and practice of old people in the West of Scotland, based on a questionnaire given to 501 people aged 65 years and over randomly selected from those living at home. Almost all had had a full range of religious instruction, and regarded their parents as religious.
G. R. Andrews, Anne Gilmore, W. S. Reid, F. I. Caird   +3 more
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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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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies

, 2011
Introduction Robert A. Orsi Part I. Religion and Religious Studies: The Irony of Inheritance: 1. On sympathy, suspicion, and studying religion: historical reflections on a doubled inheritance Leigh E. Schmidt 2.
R. Orsi
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Embodied Research and Writing: A Case for Phenomenologically Oriented Religious Studies Ethnographies

, 2011
In this article, I examine anthropological and phenomenological theories and scholarship that recognize our bodies and our interlocutor's bodies as texts that we can "read" to better understand ourselves and the lifeworlds our interlocutors inhabit ...
K. Nabhan-Warren
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Religious Studies

Religious studies, often referred to as the science of religion (‘Religionswissenschaft’ in German), is the most common international designation for the academic study of religions in university departments. Sometimes religious studies is called a ‘discipline’, but it is often argued that it is better thought of as a field that includes a wide range ...
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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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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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An Empirical Study of Religious Mysticism

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1971
Religions mysticism (hereinafter referred to as R.M.) is defined as (alleged) direct experience of ultimate reality seen as personal or hyper-personal. It may take any one of three forms: nature mysticism, theistic mysticism, and monist mysticism. In nature mysticism, the percipient feels the whole of Nature, including man, to be pervaded and directed ...
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… and/or Religious Studies

Theology, 1984
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