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Religious Studies on the Internet
The Reference Librarian, 2000Summary 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, 1984Religious 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, 2011The 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
2017Abstract 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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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 ...
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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 ...
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On Religious Studies and the Rhetoric of Religious Reading
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2001In 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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Religious Studies as a Scientific Discipline: The Persistence of a Delusion
, 2012The 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, 2015As 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
, 2012Religious 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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