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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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