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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Migration
(2,280 words)
Abstract: Migration (from Latin
migrare, “to go”) means the movement of individuals or groups from one place, region, or country to another, with the intention of staying for either a longer or shorter pe…
Millenarianism / Millennialism
(6,683 words)
Abstract: The complex of beliefs that historians variously refer to as millenarianism, millennialism, chiliasm, or
tausendjähriges Reich holds that this broken, fallen, imperfect, even evil-ridden world will be trans…
Mimesis
(2,288 words)
Abstract: The word “mimesis” describes modes of representation that seek accurately to depict details of the external world, but it also refers to emulation and other social or rhetorical forms of im…
Date:
2014-09-16
Minority (Religious)
(3,414 words)
Abstract: This entry locates the notion of a religious minority in relation to modern notions of citizenship; briefly examines factors such as geography, demographics, and theology in the constructio…
Miracle and Wonder
(2,381 words)
Abstract: In modern Western usage, a miracle is a divinely-caused event that occurs outside nature’s normal patterns. A wonder, by contrast, may or may not have natural causes but its effects awe its…
Mission
(2,964 words)
Abstract: Mission (sending) is the term for the effort to convert non-Christians to Christianity. The word is used more broadly to refer to the organized effort by any religion to win converts. Not a…
Date:
2014-09-16