What Is Religion?
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What Is Religion?

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What Is Religion?

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Starting from the premise that religion is a human endeavour that can be analysed and compared across time and cultures, What Is Religion? brings the most up-to-date scholarship to bear on humankind's most enduring creation. Religious belief is one of the most pervasive and ubiquitous characteristics of human society. Religion has influenced human lives since prehistoric times, shaping the world views of cultures from isolated tribes to vast empires.

The book opens with a brief history of the idea of religion, then divides the study of religion into four essential topics – types, representations, practices and institutions – and concludes with a final, eye-opening chapter on religion today. Packed with case studies from a wide range of religions, past and present, What Is Religion? offers a very current, comprehensive, yet intellectually challenging, overview of the history, theories, practices and study of religion.

Thoroughly updated throughout, this second edition provides an accessible, wide-ranging, engaging and concise book for undergraduate students in the study of religion. It is also invaluable for students of anthropology, history, psychology, sociology and theology as well as anyone interested in how and why humans became and continue to be religious.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9780429996078
Edition
2
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Introduction: some ideas about religion
  8. 2. A very short history of the idea of religion
  9. 3. Types and elements of religion
  10. 4. Beliefs, ideas and representations
  11. 5. Religious practices and behaviours, also known as ‘ritual’
  12. 6. Institutions: ethics, morality and norms in religion
  13. 7. Religion today: modernity, postmodernity and secularisation
  14. 8. A brief conclusion
  15. References
  16. Index