Table of Contents
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-Francois 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 Kruger
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. Vasquez and David Garbin
46. Individualization and Privatization, Jorg Rupke
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