What is Religion?

Jensen, Jeppe Sinding

ISBN 10: 1844657590 / ISBN 13: 9781844657599

Published by Routledge (edition 1), 2014

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Ex-Library.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What is Religion?
• Publisher: Routledge (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844657590
• ISBN 13: 9781844657599
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Religious belief is one of the most pervasive and ubiquitous characteristics of human society. Religion has shadowed and illuminated human lives since primitive times, shaping the world views of cultures from isolated tribes to vast empires. Starting from the premise that religion is a concept which can be analysed and compared across time and cultures, What is Religion? brings the most up-to-date scholarship to bear on humankind’s most enduring creation.

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 today. Packed with case studies from a wide range of religions, past and present, What is Religion? offers a very current, comprehensive, yet intellectually challenging overview of the history, theories, practices, and study of religion.

Accessible, wide-ranging, engaging, and short, What is Religion? is written primarily for undergraduate students in the study of religion, but it will also be invaluable for students of anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, and theology as well as anyone interested in how and why humans came and continue to be religious.

About the Author

Jeppe Sinding Jensen is Reader in the Department for Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, and a research associate at MINDLab, both Aarhus University, Denmark. Trained in Arabic and Islamic culture, history of religions, and philosophy, his work now focuses on theory and method in the study of religion.