List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Aims,
Scope, and Organization, Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler
Part
I. Religion
1: Definition, Michael Stausberg & Mark Q.
Gardiner
2: Historicizing and Translating Religion, Giovanni
Casadio
3: Theories of Religion, Michael Stausberg & Steven
Engler
4: Religion and Spirituality, Heinz Streib and Constantin
Klein
5: Non-religion, Lois Lee
Part II. Theoretical
Approaches
6: Cognitive Science, Armin W. Geertz
7: Economics,
Peter Seele & Lucas Zapf
8: Evolutionary Theory, John H.
Shaver, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, and Richard Sosis
9: Feminism and Gender
Theory, Darlene Juschka
10: Hermeneutics, Gavin Flood
11:
Marxism, Matthew Day
12: Postcolonialism, Arvind Mandair
13:
Semantics, Mark Q. Gardiner and Steven Engler
14: Semiotics, Robert
A. Yelle
15: (Post)-structuralism, Paul-François Tremlett
16:
Social Theory, Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling
Part III.
Modes
17: Communication, Volkhard Krech
18: Materiality,
David Morgan
19: Narrative, Jeppe Sinding Jensen
20:
Performance, Axel Michaels and William S. Sax
21: Sound, Rosalind
I. J. Hackett
22: Space, David Chidester
23: Time, David
Chidester
Part IV. Environments
24: Economy, Anne
Koch
25: Law, Benjamin Schonthal
26: Media, Oliver
Krüger
27: Nature, Adrian Ivakhiv
28: Medicine, Pamela
Klassen
29: Politics, Hubert Seiwert
30: Science, Laura J.
Vollmer and Kocku von Stuckrad
Sports, Carole M.
Cusack
Tourism, Alex Norman
Part V. Topics
33:
Belief, Jason C. Bivins
34: Emotion, John Corrigan
35:
Experience, Craig Martin
36: Gift and Sacrifice, Christoph
Auffarth
37: Gods, Gustavo Benavides
38: Initiation and
Transitions, Henrik Bogdan
39: Priests, Prophets, Sorcerers,
Manfred Hutter
40: Purity, Hugh B. Urban
41: Salvation,
Gavin Flood
Part VI. Processes
42: Differentiation, Steve
Bruce
43: The Disintegration and Death of Religions, Albert de
Jong
44: Expansion, Asonzeh Ukah
45: Globalization, Manuel
A. Vásquez and David Garbin
46: Individualization and Privatization,
Jörg Rüpke
47: Tradition and Innovation, Olav Hammer
48:
Objectification and Commodification, Jeremy Carrette
49: Syncretism
and Hybridization, Paul Christopher Johnson
Part VII. The
Discipline
50: History, Michael Stausberg
51: Relevance,
Thomas A.
Tweed