The traditional understanding of myth reflected in the work of scholars like Campbell and Eliade overlaps with the way of explaining the same phenomena of the relation of the self to culture found in the scientific analysis of modern ...
The book opens with a brief history of the idea of religion, then divides the study of religion into four essential topics - types, representations, practices, and institutions – and concludes with a final, eye-opening chapter on religion ...
What is Religion? serves not only as an introduction to the different belief systems flourishing throughout the modern world, but asks us to consider how the very boundaries of faith might be drawn now and in the future.
Surveys the history of religion, identifies four ways of being religious, and discusses secularism, skepticism, nihilism and humanism.
... Religion in Europe and a board member of several book series and journals. Recent publications include “Economy” in the Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion (2016) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of ...