Vocabulary for the Study of Religion
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Subject: Religious Studies
Edited by: Robert A. Segal & Kocku von Stuckrad.
The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion offers a unique overview of critical terms in the study of religion(s). This first dictionary in English covers a broad spectrum of theoretical topics used in the academic study of religion, including those from adjacent disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, historiography, theology, philology, literary studies, psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, and political sciences.
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The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion offers a unique overview of critical terms in the study of religion(s). This first dictionary in English covers a broad spectrum of theoretical topics used in the academic study of religion, including those from adjacent disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, historiography, theology, philology, literary studies, psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, and political sciences.
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Chance
(1,250 words)
Abstract: This entry explains that a chance is a kind of probability in the world, introduces a number of ways to understand probabilities in the world, and discusses how the existence of chances bears on the issue of determinism. ⸙A chanc…
Charisma
(3,509 words)
Abstract: Starting with Max Weber’s ideal type of charismatic authority and the place of charisma in his historical sociology of religion, this article follows developments of the concept as a univer…
Charismatic Movement
(1,460 words)
Abstract: The twentieth-century Charismatic movement is not unique, but it is the most significant and influential “movement of the Spirit” in Christian history. It can be subdivided into three parts…
Date:
2014-09-16
Cinema
(4,178 words)
Abstract: The technology of cinema was invented at the end of the nineteenth century. In the early twentieth century its narrative form began to develop into the illusionistic system of Hollywood. Th…
Cinematography
(2,662 words)
Abstract: Cinematography is both a technical craft and an art. Cinematographers collaborate with the director from the initial stages through to post-production. All decisions as to which film stock,…
Civil religion
(2,149 words)
Abstract: This entry focuses on sociologist Robert Bellah’s notion of civil religion. The debate over civil religion has proceeded along both Durkheimian and Weberian lines. It has centered on the de…
Date:
2014-09-16
Civil society
(2,916 words)
Abstract: The ancient term “civil society” reemerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of revolutions and the loss of social ordering based on divine right. The term again became prominent with the de…
Class
(2,744 words)
Abstract: As a variable in the study of religion, class has been in and out of scholarly favor throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Class — or more accurately the material circu…
Classification
(2,310 words)
Abstract: Classification is pervasive in part because it seems to be presupposed by language. But not all classifications are equivalent.
Natural kinds seem to be independent of human conventions and preferences in a way that
artificia…
Date:
2014-09-16
Clothing
(2,191 words)
Abstract: Clothing often plays a fundamental role in the practice of religion around the world. Specific apparel commonly serves as a religious marker, visually separating believers from non-believer…
Date:
2014-09-16