Religion
Subtitle: empirical studies
By: edited by Steven Sutcliffe.
Contributors: Sutcliffe, Steven, 1961-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Religion -- Study and teaching.
Notes: "A Collection to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the British Association for the Study of Religions"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: Qualitative empirical methodologies : an inductive argument / Steven J. Sutcliffe; value: Phenomonology, fieldwork and folk religion / Marion Bowman; value: Media, meaning, and method in the study of religion / Chris Arthur; value: How to study religious experience in the traditions / Peter Antes; value: 'The sacred' as a viable concept in the contemporary study of religions / Terence Thomas; value: The sense and nonsense of 'community' : a consideration of contemporary debates about community and culture by a scholar of religion / Kim Knott; value: Chosen people : the concept of diaspora in the modern world / Gerrie ter Haar; value: Study of religions : the new queen of the sciences? / Brian Bocking; value: Religious experience in early Buddhism? / Richard Gombrich; value: Religion, gender and dharma : the case of the widow aesthetic / Miranda Aldhouse-Green; value: A Buddhist-Christian encounter in Sri Lanka : Panadura vada / Ria Kloppenberg; value: Religion and community in indigenous contexts / Armin W. Geertz; value: African spirituality, religion and innovation / Elizabeth Amoah; value: Unificationism: a study in religious syncretism / George Chryssides; value: Multiculturalism, Muslims and the British state / Tariq Modood; value: Afterword: Separating religion from the "sacred" : methodological agnosticism and the future of religious studies / James L. Cox.