New Approaches to the Study of Religion : Volume 1: Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion , edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion , edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches. Frontmatter Contents Introduction New Approaches to the Study of Religion in North America A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in Europe The Study of Religion, the History of Religions and Islamic Studies in Turkey The Study of Religion and Social Crises A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in India A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in Australia and the Pacific Philosophy and Religion Meaning and Religion Religion in Context Ideological Critique in the Study of Religion Gendering the History of Religion Critical Trends in the Study of Religion in the United States New Approaches to the Study of Religion and Culture Religion and the Internet New Approaches to the Study of New Religions in North America and Europe New Approaches to the Study of the New Fundamentalisms Zen and the Art of Inverting Orientalism The Study of Western Esotericism Backmatter It is particularly fitting at the threshold of a new millennium to reflect back on what has transpired in academic approaches to the study of religion over the last two decades of the twentieth century.