Religion and Culture

INTERNAL LINKS
Religious Studies bibliography

EXTERNAL LINKS
. BBC - Religion
. Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture
. Culture and Religion (Journal)
. Cultural Studies (Journal)
. The International Society for the Study of
Religion, Nature & Culture
. Journal of Religion and Film
. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
. Mental Health, Religion and Culture
. Religion and Society (AHRC/ESRC)
. Religious Narrativity, Cognition and Culture

RELIGIOUS STUDIES LINKS
. American Academy of Religion
. Association of University Lecturers
in Religion & Education (UK)
. British Association for the
Study of Religions
. BSA Sociology of Religion
Study Group [UK]
. Council of Societies for the
Study of Religion
. Encyclopedia Mythica
. English Literature and Religion
. European Association for the
Study of Religions
. Focus on Religion
.  International Association for the
Cognitive Science of Religion
. Internet Sacred Text Archive
. JISCmail
. Links to Multifaith and Religion Sites
. National Association of Teachers
of Religious Education
. National Association of SACREs
. Philosophy of Religion
. Psychology of Religion Pages
. Religion in Victorian Britain
. Religion-online.org
. Religious Education Council of
England and Wales
. Religious Studies Web Guide
 - Bibliographies on the Net
. Scholarly Societies Project
Religious Studies page
. The Shap Working Party
. Society for the Anthropology of Religion [USA]
. Society for the Scientific Study
of Religion [USA]
. Studying Religions
. Studying Religion [McCutcheon]
. Studying religions -- Methodological issues: A Bibliography
. University of Toronto's Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Bibliography
. Virtual Office of William Lane Craig
. Virtual Religion Index
. Why Study Religion?
 

RELIGION AND CULTURE
"I am careful to say 'let it come' because if the other is precisely what is not invented, the initiative or deconstructive inventiveness can consist only in opening, in uncloseting, in destabilising foreclusionary structures, so as to allow for the passage toward the other" Jacques Derrida (1989) "Psyche: Inventions of the Other" in Lindsay Waters & Wlad Godzich [Eds] (1989) Reading De Man Reading  (University of Minnesota Press, p.60)
 

"From the local to the global level, religion is - more than ever - an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the 21st century. From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways. Now in its second edition, Religion: the Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture available. The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes new discussions of:

* The study of religion and culture in the 21st century
* Texts, films and rituals
* Cognitive approaches to religion
* Globalisation and multiculturalism
* Spirituality in the West
* Popular religion"

Religion: The Basics (second edition)
By Malory Nye
2008, Routledge

"Overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with varied and engaging examples taken from newspaper stories, relationship counselling sessions, accounts of the paranormal, social workers' assessments of violent parents, informal talk between programme makers, political arguments and everyday conversations. Ranging across the social and human sciences, this book provides a lucid introduction to several key strands of work that have overturned the way we think about facts and descriptions, including: the sociology of scientific knowledge; conversation analysis and ethnomethodology; and semiotics, post-structuralism and postmodernism."

Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction
Jonathan Potter
1996, SAGE Publications