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The Religion Toolkit
eBook - A Complete Guide to Religious Studies
ISBN/EAN: 9781444343717
Umbreit-Nr.: 3659910
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 384 S., 18.66 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.09.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This complete overview of religious studies provides students with the essential knowledge and tools they need to explore and understand the nature of religion.<ul type="disc"><li>Covers the early development of religion, with overviews of major and minor religions from Islam to Scientology</li><li>Considers recent developments including secularization; the relationship between religion and science; and scientific studies on religion, health, and mystical experience</li><li>Uses humor throughout, allowing students to remain open-minded to the subject</li><li>Explains what it means to study religion academically, and considers the impact of the study of religion on religion itself</li><li>Contains numerous student-friendly features including photos, maps, time lines, side bars, historical profiles, and population distribution figures</li><li>Provides classroom users with a lively website,www.wiley.com/go/religiontoolkit, including questions, quizzes, extra material, and helpful primary and secondary sources</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>John Morreall</b> is Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary. He has published widely in the philosophy of religion, and on the comic dimensions of world religions. His book<i>Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion</i> (1999) won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2000. He is also the author of Comic<i>Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor</i> (2009), published by Wiley-Blackwell.<p><b>Tamara Sonn</b> is the Wm. R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary. Her books include<i>Comparing Religions through Law: Judaism and Islam</i> (with J. Neusner, 1999) and<i>Islam: A Brief History, 2nd edition</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). She was senior editor of the<i>Oxford Dictionary of Islam</i> (2003), and associate editor of<i>The Islamic World Past and Present</i> (2004). She is currently an editor of<i>Oxford Islamic</i><i>Studies Online</i>, and of<i>Encyclopedia of the Islamic World</i> (2009). In addition, Sonn is editor-in-chief of<i>Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies</i>, and co-editor-inchief of Wiley-Blackwell's<i>Religion Compass</i>.