scholarly journals Religious diversity

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Lionel Obadia ◽  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Asian Religions ◽  
Conceptual Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Mixed Systems

The subject matter of this special issue is anything but new: religious diversity has already been widely discussed in theology, philosophy, history and sociology.  (Too) many times, however, diversity has been measured against the yardstick of the changing face of monotheistic models of religion (mainly Christianity). Asian religions have stood at the opposite end of a spectrum of analytical models in religious studies ever since Max Weber’s classic analysis of Asian religions as mixed systems of beliefs per se. This distinction is, nevertheless, rather problematic, and calls for a closer examination of the conceptual status of diversity, and of the forms it assumes in Asian contexts.

Prospects in Theories of Religion

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Stausberg
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Theories Of Religion ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThe article proposes possible reasons for the avoidance of theories of religion in the discipline of religious studies. The article further discusses some main challenges for theories of religion: the complexity of the subject matter, the variety of discourses in other relevant scholarly fields and disciplines, and the various (philosophical, anthropological etc.) choices theorists have to make (and sometimes made without further reflection). These challenges are illustrated by introducing the articles of this special issue on Prospects in Theories of Religion. The introductory article points to some shared concerns and developments but also to some points of potential dialogue and matters of contention among the articles of this special issue.

scholarly journals Processing and Technology of Dairy Products: A Special Issue

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Hilton Deeth ◽  
Phil Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Subject

When this Special Issue was launched, we cast the net widely in terms of the subject matter we considered suitable for the papers [...]

What is Religion?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bergunder
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Common Definition ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

Religious studies cannot agree on a common definition of its subject matter. To break the impasse, important insights from recent discussions about post-foundational political theory might be of some help. However, they can only be of benefit in conversations about “religion” when the previous debate on the subject matter of religious studies is framed slightly differently. This is done in the first part of the article. It is, then, shown on closer inspection of past discussions on “religion” that a consensus-capable, contemporary, everyday understanding of “religion,” here called Religion 2, is assumed, though it remains unexplained and unreflected upon. The second part of the article shows how Religion 2 can be newly conceptualized through the lens of Ernesto Laclau’s political theory, combined with concepts from Judith Butler and Michel Foucault, and how Religion 2 can be established as the historical subject matter of religious studies. Though concrete historical reconstructions of Religion 2 always remain contested, I argue that this does not prevent it from being generally accepted as the subject matter of religious studies. The third part discusses the previous findings in the light of postcolonial concerns about potential Eurocentrism in the concept of “religion.” It is argued that Religion 2 has to be understood in a fully global perspective, and, as a consequence, more research on the global religious history of the 19th and 20th centuries is urgently needed.

Unicums, Fragments, and Other Hebrew Book Rarities

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-153
Author(s):  
Marvin Heller
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
The Individual

The subject matter of this article is unique or rare editions of early Hebrew books. Due to varying external circumstances, these rare books are extant only in fragments, unique single exemplars, or in a limited number of copies. Although Hebrew texts were subject to the same ravages of time and, perhaps, occasional indifference as were other early books, they also suffered to a much greater extent than their non-Hebrew counterparts from the indignities and deeds, or more accurately misdeeds, of anti-Semites who expended their wrath not only on Jews but also directed their venom towards Jewish books. The article is not about the causes of book rarity per se, but rather describes a variety of Hebrew works, either of the individual title, or, in some instances, of a particular edition of a reprinted work that is extant today in a single or a limited number of copies.

The Student of Religion as Critic: A Marxist View

1982 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-326
Author(s):  
James Thrower
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Western World ◽  
University Departments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

That the study of religion can be pursued and, as a matter of fact, has been pursued, from a variety of standpoints - some overt and some covert - is today something of an uncomfortable commonplace to those involved in teaching Religionswissenschaft and Religionsgeschichte in Western university departments of Religious Studies. In thus exhibiting a diversity of approach the study of religion is, however, not alone among the humane disciplines: the study of history, of politics, of society, of art and of literature are equally beset by problems of Problematik and of methodology that take up much of the time and much of the energy of their practitioners. The student of each of these disciplines must confront, both at the outset of his studies and continually throughout their pursuit, questions relating to point, purpose and meaning, and in the study of any of the disciplines I have mentioned - of history, literature, art, politics, society and, today, we must add, of science also - there is in the contemporary Western world little, if any, agreement among those involved in the pursuit of learning in these areas either on the Problematik - that is, on the questions to be put to the material that forms the subject matter of the discipline concerned, or about the methods to be employed in describing, understanding, analysing and ultimately synthesising the material of these disciplines into a coherent and meaningful whole.

3. Myth and religion

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Subject

‘Myth and religion’ explores how twentieth-century theories from religious studies have sought to reconcile myth with science by reconciling religion with science. One tactic has been to re-characterize the subject matter of religion and therefore of myth. Another has been to elevate seemingly secular phenomena to religious ones. As part of this elevation, myth is no longer confined to explicitly religious ancient tales. Plays, books, and films are like myths because they reveal the existence of another, often earlier world alongside the everyday one—a world of extraordinary figures and events akin to those found in traditional myths.

The New Politics of European Integration

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-421
Author(s):  
Ghiţa Ionescu
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
New Politics ◽  
British Labour ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Near Future

EXACTLY FIVE YEARS AGO THIS JOURNAL PUBLISHED A SPECIAL ISSUE devoted to ‘The Politics of European Integration’. British-European relations were then at one of their lowest ebbs and our endeavour might have seemed singularly untimely. Yet the issue has been exhausted, and the demand for it continues. But, when faced with the decision to reprint, we thought that the subject matter had evolved so much that we preferred to prepare a new collection of studies. Hence this issue on the new politics of European integration.But there is continuity between the two numbers of the journal. Our subscribers will not fail to notice that many of the articles which appeared in 1966 on basic historical and political aspects of European integration have not been superseded. Indeed the historical articles from the previous issue, together with the political articles of the present issue, supplemented by two historical surveys of British, and British Labour attitudes to the EEC, by Stephen Holt and Michael Wheaton respectively, are to be published in book form in the near future by Messrs Macmillan.

Recognizing Religion: Disciplinary Traditions, Epistemology, and History

Numen ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 145-165
Author(s):  
Michael Lambek
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Subject

AbstractQuestions of methodology hang on epistemology. I consider the conceptualization of the subject of the study of religion, arguing that the disciplines that carry out the study and also the objects or subjects of their study can be understood as traditions. I briefly review the conceptualization of religion within the anthropological tradition, noting a tension between understanding religion as socially immanent or as a set of explicit beliefs and practices constitutive of the transcendent. Religion is probably conceptualized rather differently within religious studies, especially insofar as each tradition has formulated itself in relation to secularism in its own way and in relation to, or confrontation with, other distinct traditions, whether of science or theology. Drawing on a meteorological metaphor, I suggest that both disciplines and religions qua traditions can be understood to change along historical “fronts;” these form both the conditions of our knowledge and its appropriate subject matter.

The Study of Controversies and the Theory and History of Science

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Dascal
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Usual Practice ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Way Of Thinking

These introductory remarks are unorthodox in many respects. The deviance from usual practice is justified by the extreme importance I attach to the subject matter of this special issue. I want to convey to the reader a sense of why I think controversies, particularly in science, are so crucial, and to propose a different way of thinking about them. This mandates, in the limited space available, a compact presentation, omitting supporting arguments and necessary elaboration — for which the reader is referred to the bibliography.

Clifford Geertz: An Interfacing of Anthropology and Religious Studies

Horizons ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Anthropology Of Religion ◽  
Symbol Systems ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
Meaning System ◽  
Meaning Analysis

AbstractClifford Geertz is acclaimed today to be one of the most important theorists in the anthropology of religion. He has approached the subject-matter of religion from the perspective of a humanist seeking to come to an analytical understanding of the nature of culture as an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in a complex of symbol-systems. This approach, i.e., defining anthropology as a science of meaning-analysis, nurtures the study of culture as a meaning-system. Religion, too, says Geertz, is a cultural system and necessarily conveys meaning. Therefore, both culture and religion are meaning-systems and, we can conclude, both anthropology and theology attempt to analyze systematically these meaning-systems. The interfacing of the disciplines of anthropology (systematics of culture) and theology (systematics of religion) is made possible by the utilization of the category of “meaning” as a hermeneutical key to the understanding of both religion and culture as meaning-systems.

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