Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity write by Brent Smith. This book was released on 2019-08-19. Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a survey of the development of interdisciplinarity in religious studies within academia and offers ways for it to continue to progress in contemporary universities. It examines the use of the term ‘interdisciplinary’ in the context of the academic study of religion and how it shapes the way scholarly work in this field has developed. The text uses two main elements to discuss religious studies as a field. Firstly, it looks at the history of the development of religious studies in academia, as seen through an interdisciplinary critique of the university as an epistemological project. It then uses the same interdisciplinary critique to develop a foundation for a 21st-century hermeneutic, one which uses the classical concepts reprised by that interdisciplinary critique and retools the field for the 21st century. Setting out both the objects of religious studies as a subject and the techniques used to employ the study of those objects, this book offers an invaluable perspective on the progress of the field. It will, therefore, be of great use to scholars of research methods within religious studies.
Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry write by Robin W. Lovin. This book was released on 2017-03-12. Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can a neuroscientist help a theologian interpret a medieval mystical text? Can a historian of religion help an anthropologist understand the effects of social cooperation on human evolution? Can a legal scholar and a theologian help each other think about how fear of God relates to respect for the law? In this volume leading scholars in ethics, theology, and social science sum up three years of study and conversation regarding the value of interdisciplinary theological inquiry. This is an essential and challenging collection for all who set out to think, write, teach, and preach theologically in the contemporary world. CONTRIBUTORS: John P. Burgess Peter Danchin Celia Deane-Drummond Agustín Fuentes Andrea Hollingsworth Robin W. Lovin Joshua Mauldin Friederike Nüssel Mary Ellen O'Connell Douglas F. Ottati Stephen Pope Colleen Shantz Michael Spezio
Understanding World Religions
Understanding World Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding World Religions write by Irving Hexham. This book was released on 2011-03-22. Understanding World Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead to the same God or the same moral life fails to account for the distinctive origins and radically different teachings found across the world’s many religions. Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out. Of particular importance is Hexham’s decision to explore African religions, which have frequently been absent from major religion texts. He surveys these in addition to varieties of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The Shaping of Rationality
The Shaping of Rationality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shaping of Rationality write by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen. This book was released on 1999-07-20. The Shaping of Rationality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book arises out of a deep fascination with the relationship between human intelligence and rationality, and with how our fragile but uniquely human ability to be rational invariably affects our everyday lives as well as our involvement with faith, theology, and the spectacular scientific achievements of our time. After carefully analyzing the notion of rationality and examining how the skill of rationality is being challenged by postmodern culture, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen argues that it is precisely the problem of rationality that holds the key to understanding the complex forces shaping the radically different domains of religion and science today.
Literature and Theology
Literature and Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature and Theology write by Dr Heather Walton. This book was released on 2013-06-28. Literature and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores current trends in the interdisciplinary study of literature and theology - an area of academic activity that has developed dramatically in the past twenty years. The field of study originated from the impetus to embrace the richness of imaginative resources in theological reflection and was stimulated by the re-emergence of the sacred in contemporary theory. Since the mid '90s critical theory has undergone a number of significant transformations, theology has become a subject of public concern and the boundaries between sacred and cultural texts have become increasingly unstable. This book brings together the work of leading scholars in the field with that of emerging voices. Offering an important resource for the growing number of postgraduate courses exploring the relation between religion and culture in the contemporary context, this book delineates current trends in interdisciplinary debate as well as tracing emerging configurations.
