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Timothy Fitzgerald and the Revival of Religious Studies

, 2020
The Ideology of Religious Studies is described as foundational for the developing sub-field of "critical religion." Central tenets of Fitzgerald's work are highlighted as challenges to conventional assumptions and oft-repeated bromides that characterize ...
N. Goldenberg
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Religious tourism studies: evolution, progress, and future prospects

Tourism Recreation Resarch, 2020
This review study examines evolving themes in the scholarly literature on religious tourism and identifies research gaps that provide a basis for future investigations.
Bona Kim, S. Kim, B. King
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Gaming Religionworlds: Why Religious Studies Should Pay Attention to Religion in Gaming

, 2016
This roundtable article discusses the intersection between digital gaming, new media, and Religious Studies in order to provide an agenda for this growing conversation.
Heidi A. Campbell, Rachel Wagner, Shanny Luft, Rabia Gregory, G. Grieve, Xenia Zeiler   +5 more
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A STUDY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF

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 with ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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