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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Theater / Theatricality
(3,508 words)
Abstract: Proceeding from the history of the terms “theater” and “theatricality” and their usage in different languages, the entry surveys the great variance of their possible meanings. A basic defin…
Theodicy
(3,665 words)
Abstract: A theodicy makes available to God a morally exonerating reason for allowing evil. There are a variety of different kinds of evil and thus a variety of different kinds of theodicies, among w…
Theogony
(1,722 words)
Abstract: Theogonies are about the origins of the gods. Cosmogonies are about the origins of the world. In the early archaic period of Greece Hesiod composed his
Theogonia, which was both a cosmogony and a theogony. The world a…
Theology
(3,258 words)
Abstract: Theology must itself define its position in relation to religious studies as well as other religion. As an academic discipline it is an invention of Western Christianity, refined through th…
Theories of Religion
(5,493 words)
Abstract: Theories of anything are generalizations about a category — here religion. Most modern theories of religion come from the social sciences. Older ones came from the humanities, above all fro…
Time
(4,271 words)
Abstract: Western theists are divided on how to conceive of God’s relation to time. Biblically based theists hold God to be everlasting in the same time that contains worldly events. By contrast, Sai…
Date:
2014-09-16