Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Working Papers from Hannover

Steffen Führding

ISBN 10: 9004347860 / ISBN 13: 9789004347861

Published by Brill Aug 2017, 2017

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Neuware - This collection of essays provides an insight into the theoretical and methodological debates within the academic study of religion in Hanover and beyond over the last years.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Working Papers from Hannover
• Publisher: Brill Aug 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004347860
• ISBN 13: 9789004347861
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 127H x 18D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 127 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 472 grams

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Synopsis

Since the downfall of the phenomenology of religion as the leading paradigm in the study of religion in the 1960s, theoretical and methodological discussions surrounding the nature and identity of the study of religion as an academic discipline have proliferated. The essays included in this volume approach these debates from a variety of angles. Based on a series of talks held at the University of Hannover over the last few years, the essays are intended to be understood as diagnostic works in progress and thus as working papers, all of which strive to point out important problems and perspectives in the field of theories and methodology and to draw attention to the future of the discipline. Using developments in Hanover as a launch pad, the volume forms the basis for further insights into the direction of the study of religion as a discipline at large.

About the Author

Steffen Führding, Ph.D.. (1981), Leibniz University Hannover, teaches at the Department for the Study of Religion at that same university. He has published on the history of the study of religion and theoretical debates within the discipline, including Jenseits von Religion (transcript, 2015).