Table of Contents
List of Contributors viii
About the Editors x
Introduction xiRobert A. Segal
Part I Approaches 1
1 Anthropology of Religion 3Fiona Bowie
2 Economics of Religion 25Rodney Stark
3 Literature and Religion 44Eric Ziolkowski
4 Phenomenology of Religion 65Thomas Ryba
5 Philosophy of Religion 93Charles Taliaferro
6 Psychology of Religion 113Roderick Main
7 Sociology of Religion 135Titus Hjelm
8 Theology 152Ian S. Markham
Part II T opics 169
9 Body 171Yudit Kornberg Greenberg
10 Cognitive Science 184Jesper Sorensen
11 Comparative Method 197Paul Roscoe
12 Death and Afterlife 209Douglas J. Davies
13 Emotion 219Tony Milligan
14 Esotericism 229Karl Baier
15 Ethics 241G. Scott Davis
16 Functionalism 253Robert A. Segal
17 Fundamentalism 265Henry Munson
18 Globalization 277Michael Wilkinson
19 History 289Robert A. Yelle
20 Law 302Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
21 Magic 315Kocku von Stuckrad
22 Modernism and Postmodernism 325Paul-Francois Tremlett
23 Music 335Guy L. Beck
24 Myth 348Robert A. Segal
25 Nationalism 361Mark Juergensmeyer
26 Pilgrimage 371Simon Coleman
27 Ritual 382
Part I by Catherine Bell Part II by Jens Kreinath
28 Science 400Ralph O'Connor
29 Secularization 414Steve Bruce
30 Sex and Gender 429Ivan Strenski
31 Terror and Violence 440Lorne L. Dawson
Index 451