(Interdisciplinary)
Religious Studies
Introductory, Methodological and Classic Texts |
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"Religious Studies doesn't only register and document the composition of
religious traditions and their mythologies, soteriologies, theologies, rules
regulating social life, guidelines and forms of ritual behaviour. As an academic
discipline , it also provides different and sometimes competing conceptual
solutions for understanding and explaining religion and religiosity." |
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BOOKS TO BEGIN WITH |
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Beckerlegge, G. [Ed.] (2001)
The World Religions Reader: 2nd Edition (Routledge) |
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Beckford, J. (2003)
Social Theory and Religion (Cambridge University Press) |
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Davie, G. (2007) The Sociology of Religion: New Edition
(London: Sage) |
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Davies, B. (2003)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion: 3rd Edition (Oxford University Press) |
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Fitzgerald, T. (2007) Religion and the Secular: Historical
and Colonial Formations (London: Equinox) |
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Masuzawa, T. (2005) The Invention of World Religions
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press) |
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Nye, M. (2003)
Religion: The Basics (Routledge) |
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Taylor, Mark C. [Ed.] (1998)
Critical Terms for Religious Studies (Chicago University Press) |
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Woodhead, L. et al (2001)
Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations (Routledge) |
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AND MORE... |
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Armstrong, K. (1999)
A History of God (Vintage) |
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Arthur, L. B. (2000)
Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Berg) |
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Armstrong, K. (1999)
A Short History of Myth (Canongate) |
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Asad, T. (1993)
Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
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Barker, L. and Warburg, M. [Eds] (1998)
New Religions and New Religiosity (Aarhus University Press) |
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Beit-Hallahmi, B. and Argyle, M. (1996)
The Social Psychology of Religion (Routledge) |
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Berger, P. (1967/1990)
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Anchor Books) |
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Bowie, F. (1999)
The Anthropology of Religion : An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell) |
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Brown, A. [Ed.] (1986)
Festivals in World Religions: -Shap Working Party- (Longman) |
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Bunt, G. (2001)
The Good Web Guide: World Religions (The Good Web Guide) |
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Braun, W. and McCutcheon, R. T. [Eds.] (2000)
Guide to the Study of Religion (Continuum) |
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Castelli, E. & Rodman, R. [Eds] (2001)
Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan) |
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Chryssides, G. D. and Geaves, R. (2007)
The Study of Religion: An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods (Continuum) |
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Cohn-Sherbok, D. (2003)
Judaism: History, Belief and Practice (Routledge) |
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Davies, B. (2003)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion: 3rd Edition (Oxford University Press) |
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Dawson, L. and Cowan, D. [Eds] (2004)
Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet (Routledge) |
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Durkheim, E. (1912/2008)
Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Oxford World Classics) |
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Eliade, M. (1957/1987)
The Sacred and the Profane (Harcourt Inc) |
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Ernst, C (2003) Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam
in the Contemporary World (NC: The University of North Carolina
Press) |
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Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (1967)
Theories of Primitive Religion (Oxford University Press) |
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Fenn, by R. K. [Ed.] (2003)
The Blackwell Companion to
Sociology of Religion (Blackwell) |
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Fitzgerald, T. (2000)
The Ideology of Religious Studies (Oxford University Press) |
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Flood, G. (1999)
Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion (New York: Cassell) |
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Gill, R., Hadaway, C. Kirk & Marler, P. L. (1998) Is Religious Belief
Declining in Britain? Journal for the Scientific Study
of Religion, 37(3) (September), pp. 507-516 |
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Hinnells, John R. (1984)
The Penguin Dictionary of Religions (London: Penguin) |
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Hinnells, John R. (1985)
A Handbook of Living Religions (London: Pelican) |
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Hughes, A. W. (2008)
Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline (Equinox) |
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Hojsgaard, M. T. & Warburg, M. (2005)
Religion and Cyberspace (Routledge) |
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James, W. (1902/1983)
The Varieties of Religious Experience (Penguin) |
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Jung, C. (1938/1970)
Psychology and Religion: West and East (Routledge) |
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Juschka, D. M. (ed.) (2001)
Feminism in the Study of Religion : A Reader (Cassell) |
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Keown, D. (1996)
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) |
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King, U. (1995)
Religion and Gender (WileyBlackwell) |
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Knott, K. (2000)
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) |
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Lambek, M. (2002)
A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (Blackwell) |
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Lincoln, B. (2000)
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology and Scholarship (University of Chicago Press) |
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Lincoln, B. (2007)
Religion, Empire and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia (University of Chicago Press) |
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Loewenthal, K. L. (2000)
The Psychology of Religion: A Short Introduction (One World) |
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Masuzawa, T. (2005)
The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism
(Chicago University Press) |
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McCutcheon, R. T. (1997)
Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse of Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia (Oxford University Press) |
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McCutcheon, R. T. (2005)
Religion and the Domestication of Dissent (Equinox) |
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Mehr, F. (1991)
The Zoroastrian Tradition (Element) |
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Mumm, S. [Ed]
Religion Today: A Reader (Ashgate and Open University Press) |
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Murphy, T. (2007)
Representing Religion: Essays in History, Theory and Crisis (Equinox) |
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Nesbitt, E. (2005)
Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) |
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Otto, R. (1917/1968)
The Idea of the Holy (Oxford University Press) |
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Park, C. (1994)
Sacred Worlds : An Introduction to Geography and Religion
(Routledge)
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Pyysiainen, I. & Anttonen, V. (2002)
Current Approaches in the Cognitive Science of Religion (Continuum) |
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Rappaport, Roy A. (1999)
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge University Press) |
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Rennie, B. (2006)
Mircea Eliade: A Critical Reader (Equinox) |
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Smart, N. (1992)
The World's Religions (Cambridge University Press) |
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Smith, Wilfred Cantwell (1962/1991)
The Meaning and End of Religion (Augsburg Fortress)
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Strenski, I. (2005)
Thinking About Religion: An Historical Introduction to Theories of Religion (WileyBlackwell) |
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Strenski, I. (2006)
Thinking About Religion: A Reader (WileyBlackwell) |
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Solomon, N. (1996)
Judaism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) |
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Spat, E. (2005)
The Yezidis (Saqi) |
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Thrower, J. (1999)
Religion: The Classical Theories (Georgetown University Press)
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Weber, M. (1904/2003)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Dover Publications) |
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Weber, M. (1920/1993)
Sociology of Religion (Beacon Press) |
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Woodhead, L. (2004)
Christianity: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press) |
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Woodhead, L. (2004)
An Introduction to Christianity (Cambridge University Press) |
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