Why Study Religion? Understanding Humanity`s Pursuit of the Divine

By:

Muck, Terry C

Contributor(s):

Muck, Terry C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Michigan Baker Book House 2016Description: 202pISBN:

9780801049958

DDC classification:

C01.5 M881

Partial contents:

Part 1 Why 1. The study of religion .....21 2. The student of religion .......43 Part 2 Why now? 3. Changing societies: radical differentiation .....65 4. Complex individuals: Hybrid personalities .....85 Confession .....105 Part 3 How? 6. The scholarly skills:Studying texts, collecting ethnographic data, comparing and contrasting ideas ...129 7 Perspectival objectivity: From premodern to modern to postmodern ......147 8 New trajectories for the study of religion .......165

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