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Scholars once predicted a bleak existence for religion in the modern world. Social progress, they argued, meant doing away with religion and its antiquated control over our lives. Religion, however, is actually thriving in pluralistic and complex societies, and its continued vibrancy-even resurgence--demands a reevaluation of ideas about secularization. Nancy T. Ammerman has assembled a diverse and interdisciplinary group of scholars to provide a critical observation of modern religion in action. This collection of previously unpublished essays approaches modern religion at its most fundamental levels and brings the reader into the presence of religious practice among the complexities of daily life. The authors take aim at the failure of secularization theories to explain why and how people continue to choose religion in the midst of modernity. Each essay combines a portrait of religious activity in often-unexpected places with an evaluation of currently dominant theories to offer a fresh alternative perspective. From media to politics to family and civic life, these scholars look for the ways religion crosses boundaries and compare its effects in different cultural and institutional situations. These insightful essays identify a new approach to the study of religion, one that emphasizes individual experience and social context over fixed categories and statistical equations.

Religion and sociology. --- Religion and sociology --- 316:2 --- 316:2 Godsdienstsociologie --- Godsdienstsociologie --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- everyday religion --- modern religious way of living --- social progress --- pluralistic society --- secularization --- interdisciplinarity in the study of religion --- modern religion --- media --- politics --- civic life --- culture --- institutions --- study of religion

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This volume brings together diverse voices from various fields within religious and theological studies for a conversation about the proper objects, goals, and methods for the study of religion in the twenty-first century. It approaches these questions by way of the most recent contemporary challenges, debates, and developments in the field, and provides a forum in which contending perspectives are tested and contested by their proponents and opponents. Contributors address topics such as: the connection between the ‘normative’ and the ‘scientific’ approaches to the study of religion, the meaning of religion in a context of globalization, the relation between religious studies and religious traditions, the viability of comparative and cultural studies of religious phenomena, and the future of gender studies in religion.

Religion --- Religions --- Study and teaching --- Congresses --- Etude et enseignement --- Congrès --- 291 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Theology --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Congresses. --- Religion - Study and teaching - Congresses --- Religions - Study and teaching - Congresses --- the study of religion --- theology --- methods for the study of religion --- normative and scientific approaches to the study of religion --- the meaning of religion in a globalized context --- religious tradition and religious study --- religious phenomena --- gender studies in religion

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Identity and the Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion features some of the most well-known and respected scholars in religious studies offering critical reflections on the relationship of identity to scholarship in their field.Similar studies have dealt with these issues of subjectivity and identity in other fields, but none have approached or appreciated the special problems they present for the study of religion. Cabezon and Davaney aim to fill this gap by offering a sophisticated collection on sexual identity and gender, ethnicity, race and religious affiliations and their relat

Religion --- Study and teaching. --- Religion - Study and teaching. --- scholarship in the study of religion --- subjectivity --- identity --- knowledge --- representation --- interdisciplinarity --- religious affiliation --- religious studies --- religious identity --- sexual identity --- gender --- ethnicity --- race --- Islam --- Judaism --- Buddhism --- Christianity --- Hinduism --- African religions --- theological studies

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Religions. --- 291 --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Religions --- religion --- religion in the contempoarary world --- study of religion --- spirituality --- popular culture --- secularism --- modernity --- religous traditions --- global politics --- social change

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What is Religion? consists of fourteen essays written by a selection of scholars who represent a wide spectrum of approaches to the acedamic study of religion. Each of the essays is an effort not only to take stock of the present controversy concerning appropriate methodologies for the study of religion, but also to take one giant step beyond that to formulate a precise definition of religion. Given the considerable confusion today about what it is exactly that religious studies scholars take to be their subject matter when they presume to professionally teachabout religion, this volume provides a much needed forum for leading scholars to debate and clarify what professors of religious studies understand as the central object or objects under their scrunity.

Religious studies --- Religion. --- Religion --- 291.11 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur --- 291.11 Godsdienst:--oorsprong; ontwikkeling; natuur --- Religious history. --- Study and teaching. --- origins, definitions and explanations of religion --- methodologies for the study of religion --- social formation --- religious plurality --- history of religion --- Theology.