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Rennie, Bryan. "Religion after Religion, History after History: Postmodern Historiography and the Study of Religions." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 15, no. 1 (2003): 68–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700680360549420.

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AbstractThe following essay reviews Steven Wasserstrom's Religion after Religion— a partial history of the History of Religions—and three theoretical works on historiography: Hayden White's Metahistory, Peter Novick's That Noble Dream, and Robert F. Berkhofer Jr.'s Beyond the Great Story. As well as introducing readers to the argument of these works, the essay uses Wasserstrom's book as an example of a "monovocal" style of the narration of the phenomenal past in opposition to the polyvocal style called for by the historiographers. The purpose of the essay is to indicate the degree to which mon

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Rennie, Bryan. "The History (and Philosophy) of Religions." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 41, no. 1 (2012): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008429811430055.

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In a paper given at a Roundtable at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) National Annual Conference in Montreal in November of 2009, jointly organized by the North American Association for the Study of Religion and the Critical Theory and Discourses in Religion Group of the AAR, I argued for the ineluctably philosophical nature of what is most commonly called ‘method and theory in the study of religion.’ That paper ( Rennie, 2010 ) also argues that what is conventionally referred to as ‘philosophy of religion’ does not, strictly speaking, warrant that name since it is in fact a form of theol

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Hong, Kyung-Taek. "A Study on Kim Chai Choon’s Understanding of Religion." Madang: Journal of Contextual Theology 43 (June 30, 2025): 39–55. https://doi.org/10.58302/madang.2025.43.4.

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This paper aims to examine Kim Chai Choon’s understanding of religion. His perspective on religion challenged the dogmatic and imperialistic approach of Western missionaries, who often failed to grasp the unique religio-cultural context of Korea. Kim’s missional approach significantly influenced the formation of minjung theology, a Korean contextual theology shaped by Korean people’s socio-political and religio-cultural realities. Minjung theology contributed to social transformation by advocating for restoring the human rights of the minjung, whose dignity had been sacrificed under the milita

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Van Den Heever, Gerhard. "Diversity: Religions and the Study of Religion." Religion and Theology 11, no. 3-4 (2004): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430104x00096.

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AbstractIn this essay an overview of the theoretical issues pertaining to the collection of essays assembled is given. Addressing the issue of dizversity in religions and in the study of religion the argument is made that religions as lived phenomena constitute discursive formations in which diversity as a problem is an index of encounter. However it is especially the way this strategy of reducing the many to the one in the history of theorising religion that comes in view. In this context, the political nature of religion as discourse and the discourse of the study of religion is discussed wi

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Rydving, Håkan. "Scandinavian-Saami religious connections in the history of research." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 13 (January 1, 1990): 358–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67185.

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The religions of Scandinavians and Saamis have, for decades of scholarship, functioned as sources of analogies to explain elements in one another. For the study of Saami religion answers to questions about origins were sought in Scandinavian religion, while Saami religion has been seen by students of Scandinavian religion, as a preserver and a faithful witness of Scandinavian concepts and rites that had vanished in the times reflected in the literary sources. This view has now changed. In recent decades the tendency has been to use the loan- explanations more and more sparsely. Elements in Saa

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Altman, Michael J. "“Religion, Religions, Religious” in America: Toward a Smithian Account of “Evangelicalism”." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 31, no. 1 (2019): 71–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341454.

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Abstract Jonathan Z. Smith’s essay “Religion, Religions, Religious” is a foundational essay in the study of “religion” as a taxonomic category. The essay itself makes three interrelated arguments that situate religion in Western intellectual history and argue that “religion” is a term scholars define to suit their own intellectual purposes. Though the essay, and Smith’s work overall, have had a major influence in religious studies, that influence has not reached deeply into the study of American religious history. Using Smith’s essay as a guide, this essay offers a brief application of his arg

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Thompson, Kevin. "Hegel’s History of Religions." Owl of Minerva 52, no. 1 (2021): 117–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/owl20216239.

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According to Hegel, the determinations of the absolute are conceptual properties that identify what the absolute is, and are related through logical entailments. The shapes of the absolute are historical configurations that religion takes as it appears in the domain of contingent existence. This essay claims that Stewart’s interpretation does not observe this distinction, and as a result transforms the determinations of the absolute into projections of a people’s self-understanding. I argue that Hegel himself takes a history of religions to be a logically necessary sequence in which the determ

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Rodríguez García, Sonia E. "Hacia una filosofía fenomenológica de la religión." Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, no. 17 (February 8, 2021): 239. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/rif.17.2020.29713.

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La fenomenología de la religión es una de las ciencias de las religiones surgida en el siglo XIX. Tras una época dorada, las dificultades epistemológicas y los debates suscitados en torno al estatuto del saber la abocaron a una profunda crisis interna. En la actualidad, existen dos formas de entender la fenomenología de la religión: la primera, como historia comparada de las religiones, centrada en la descripción y clasificación de los fenómenos religiosos; la segunda, como fenomenología hermenéutica, centrada en la comprensión del fenómeno religioso. Ambas corrientes constituyen dos visiones

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Brooks, Sarah B. "Secondary teacher candidates’ experiences teaching about religion within a history curriculum." Social Studies Research and Practice 14, no. 2 (2019): 180–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-05-2019-0032.

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Purpose The National Council for the Social Studies (2014, 2017) has called for increased attention to religion in social studies curriculum. A small but growing body of research has examined the preparation of social studies teacher candidates to teach about world religions, but critical questions remain. The purpose of this paper is to explore the question: what is the experience of the secondary social studies teacher candidate as he/she teaches about religion in a high school, world history course? Design/methodology/approach This study employed a phenomenological approach to examine the e

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Of the Journal, Editorial board. "History of religion." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 3 (November 5, 1996): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/1996.3.62.

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Tayob, Abdulkader. "Religion after Critique." Religion and Theology 31, no. 1-2 (2024): 93–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15743012-bja10074.

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Abstract In the last few decades, religion and its terms have shown to be implicated in projects of colonial modernity. While this critique of religion is now generally accepted, the term continues to be used in the field with little regard to its history and its colonial construction. This essay aims to bring greater attention to the continuing relevance of religion in contemporary society as articulated in postcolonial scholarship. It proposes closer attention to the critique of religion in the work of David Chidester, Talal Asad and Charles Long. Two distinct dimensions of religion are iden

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Abid Naeem, Atiq ur rehman та Hafiz Saeed Ahmad. "تقابل ادیان اور آفاقیت کی تشکیل: معاصر مواقف کا تجزیہ". مجلہ اسلامی فکر و تہذیب 2, № 2 (2022): 16–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/mift.22.02.

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The Comparative Study of Religions is a branch of study that emerged in the West during the late nineteenth century. Being a branch of Social Sciences, Comparative Religions nourishes in a scientific environment; and therefore, started viewing religion as a secular branch of study and a subjective phenomenon. The term, ‘Comparative Study’ has been used as synonymous with Science of Religions, History of Religions and Philosophy of Religions. However, the paradigm of Comparative Religions differs from the traditional pattern of study of other religious traditions and faiths, viz. to prove the a

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Lambek, Michael. "Recognizing Religion: Disciplinary Traditions, Epistemology, and History." NUMEN 61, no. 2-3 (2014): 145–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341313.

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AbstractQuestions of methodology hang on epistemology. I consider the conceptualization of the subject of the study of religion, arguing that the disciplines that carry out the study and also the objects or subjects of their study can be understood as traditions. I briefly review the conceptualization of religion within the anthropological tradition, noting a tension between understanding religion as socially immanent or as a set of explicit beliefs and practices constitutive of the transcendent. Religion is probably conceptualized rather differently within religious studies, especially insofa

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MacKendrick, Kenneth G., and Matt Sheedy. "The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 27, no. 2 (2015): 151–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341328.

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In Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age Hans Kippenberg argues that the history of religions is the creative work-product of a cultural and political identity crisis, one in which the comparative history of religions became a means for some European scholars to uncouple from an increasingly halfhearted attachment to Christianity and re-experience their own history in a dynamic new form. A future for religion was thus found in the creation of innovative categories for the re-imagining of the past. For this reason Kippenberg rightly posits that the early scholars of religion are best

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Kivinge, Ivan B. "Revisiting African Religion as an Academic Discipline in Africa: History and Prospects." Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies 1, no. 2 (2024): 314–38. https://doi.org/10.56279/zjahs1126.

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Three main religious traditions—indigenous African beliefs and practices (African religion), Christianity and Islam—have dominated everyday life of communities in Africa today. Scholarship on religion indicates that only African religion originated in Africa—Christianity and Islam are foreign religions. Many Africans today have been active Christians and Muslims, who are sometimes being misleadingly taught that African religion is demonic and forms of paganism. This article employs historical and philosophical approaches to show how the study of African religion has navigated through various h

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Lannoy, Annelies, and Corinne Bonnet. "Narrating the Past and the Future: The Position of the religions orientales and the mystères païens in the Evolutionary Histories of Religion of Franz Cumont and Alfred Loisy." Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 20, no. 1 (2018): 157–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arege-2018-0010.

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Abstract:In their grand narratives on the ancient history of religions, the Belgian historian of religions, Franz Cumont (1868 – 1947) and his French colleague and correspondent, Alfred Loisy (1857 – 1940) both assigned a prominent place to the so-called pagan mystery religions. This paper seeks to identify the specific theories of religion and the deeper motivations underpinning Cumont’s and Loisy’s historiographical construction of the mystery cults as a distinct type of religion within their evolutionary accounts of the history of religions. Through a comparative analysis of their rich corr

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Berthelot, Katell, Jörg Rüpke, Annette Weissenrieder, et al. "Religion in the Roman Empire." Religion in the Roman Empire 11, no. 1 (2025): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1628/rre-2025-0002.

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Religion in the Roman Empire (RRE) aims to advance and document new and integrative perspectives on religion in the ancient world, combining multidisciplinary methodologies. Committed to interdisciplinarity and new approaches to the study of religion, it offers a space to take up recent, but still incipient, research to modify and cross the disciplinary boundaries of the History of Religion, Archaeology, Anthropology, Classics, Ancient History, Jewish History, Rabbinics, New Testament, Early Christianity, Patristics, Coptic Studies, Gnostic and Manichean Studies, Late Antiquity and Oriental La

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Jensen, Tim, and Armin W. Geertz. "From the History of Religions to the Study of Religion in Denmark: An Essay on the Subject, Organizational History and Research Themes." Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 50, no. 1 (2014): 79–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.33356/temenos.46252.

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The history of the academic study of religion in Denmark resembles developments in other Nordic and European countries as it has moved from a primarily historical-philological and comparative ‘history of religions’ towards a broader ‘study of religion(s)’ that includes history of religions together with theories and methods from a wide variety of the human, social and today also natural sciences. Uppsala University was one of the three main centers of positivism at the end of the 19th century, and its influence was evident and long-lasting also in Denmark. By the end of the 1970s, debates and

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Jensen, Tim. "The Study of Religions and Religion in Denmark." NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 61, no. 4 (2007): 329–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ntt2007.61.329.jens.

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In this article, Tim Jensen, himself a former teacher of Religion in the Danish Grammar School (1981-1995), outlines the history of Religion, a non-confessional obligatory subject in the Danish Grammar School, as well as of the history of its now very close relations to the academic study of religions. Following the historical outline, Jensen draws a picture of the current aims and contents of Religion and of the related university study programmes. Finally, he briefly discusses other formal and less formal ‘intersections’.

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Kolodnyi, Anatolii M. "Tenth Anniversary of the History of Religion in Ukraine." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 1 (March 31, 1996): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/1996.1.27.

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The Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies together with the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine began writing this fundamental work. This will not only be the history of the church or denominations, but the religious process in our native lands. Thematic content of the ten-volume is as follows: 1. Religions of the pre-Christian age; 2. Ukrainian Orthodoxy; 3. Orthodoxy in Ukraine; 4. Catholicism in the Ukrainian lands; 5. Ukrainian Greek Catholicism; 6-7. Protestantism in Ukraine; 8. Religions of national minorities

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Kjeldsen, Karna. "A study-of-Religion(s)-Based Religion Education: Skills, Knowledge, and Aims." Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal 9, no. 4 (2019): 11–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.678.

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Different approaches to religion education have been in place for a long time or developed more recently to meet growing religious and cultural plurality in European countries and schools. In this article, I summarise and discuss basic principles for a study-of-religion(s) approach to religion education, adding arguments and perspectives from critical theories about education in general. I shall also argue that national curricula for, respectively, religion education in Sweden and History in Denmark indicate that analytical-critical skills can be a central part of religion education in element

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Díez de Velasco, Francisco. "El miedo y la religión: algunas reflexiones generales." ARYS: Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, no. 14 (May 16, 2018): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/arys.2017.3985.

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Resumen: Partiendo de un análisis general en la línea de la disciplina Historia de las Religiones, se revisa el binomio miedo y religión tanto en el pasado como en el presente. Se aboga por destacar el interés del tema, pero también por plantear los usos problemáticos que se hacen del miedo para sustentar una estigmatización de ciertos desarrollos religiosos o incluso de las religiones de modo genérico.Abstract: The binomial fear and religion both in past and present is studied in this paper from a general point of analysis in the line of the discipline History of Religions. This paper is comm

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van den Heever, Gerhard. "Redescribing Graeco-Roman Antiquity: on Religion and History of Religion." Religion and Theology 12, no. 3-4 (2005): 211–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430106776241213.

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AbstractIn introducing the theme ‘Redescribing Graeco-Roman Antiquity’ this article shows how conventional claims to uniqueness of early Judaism and early Christianity misconstrue religious history. In fact, the conventional portrayal of early Judaism, early Christianity, and Graeco-Roman religions (especially, in this case, the mystery religions) is in itself a social discourse. This is set in the context of the Graeco-Roman constructions of deity, which is demonstrated to be in themselves, too, social discourses, more speciﬁcally, an imperialising discourse. Attention is paid to the discursi

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Pye, Michael. "Religion: Shape and Shadow." Numen 41, no. 1 (1994): 51–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852794x00030.

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AbstractThis paper gives the verbatim text of an inaugural lecture given at Lancaster University in May 1992. The first part distinguishes between the "shape" of religion as reflective observers seek to discern it and the shadow cast upon it by the assumptions of the various religions themselves. The second part offers a new view of the "shape" of contemporary Japanese religion, in order briefly to illustrate what is meant by discernment of the shape of religion. The third part sets out a view of Religious Studies for universities which takes account both of the plurality of religions and, wit

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Aasi, Ghulam-Haider. "Muslim Contributions to the History of Religions." American Journal of Islam and Society 8, no. 3 (1991): 409–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v8i3.2603.

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History of Religions in the WestA universal, comparative history of the study of religions is still far frombeing written. Indeed, such a history is even hr from being conceived, becauseits components among the legacies of non-Western scholars have hardly beendiscovered. One such component, perhaps the most significant one, is thecontributions made by Muslim scholars during the Middle Ages to thisdiscipline. What is generally known and what has been documented in thisfield consists entirely of the contribution of Westdm scholars of religion.Even these Western scholars belong to the post-Enligh

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De Maeyer, Jan. "Religie in BMGN: heilig en profaan." BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 136, no. 2 (2021): 112–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.9891.

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BMGN heeft inzake onderzoek en disseminatie van het thema religie een rol van betekenis gespeeld. Die rol nam BMGN veeleer impliciet op, zelden expliciet. Religie stond niet centraal in de redactionele missie, maar was inhoudelijk wel degelijk aanwezig en bij momenten ook heel zichtbaar. Het tijdschrift verbond niet alleen historici, het verbond ook onderzoek van historici en van andere menswetenschappers uit Nederland en Vlaanderen rond het thema religie en stimuleerde op velerlei wijzen de verspreiding van methodologische vernieuwingen en innovatieve inzichten. Jammer genoeg heeft BMGN relig

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Stausberg, Michael. "The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions." Numen 68, no. 2-3 (2021): 103–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341617.

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Abstract While it is generally acknowledged that religions can “die” or go “extinct,” little research has been dedicated to the problem of the demise of religions. This text reviews earlier research on this topic and develops some reflections on two types of religion (ethno-specific and transcendental ones) and on the end of indigenous religions. The text stresses the importance of ruler conversions and indigenous agency in religion demise and transformation processes, introduces the category of “religiocide,” and proposes some criteria for identifying “religion death.” Finally, it introduces

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Chireau, Yvonne. "Looking for Black Religions in 20th Century Comics, 1931–1993." Religions 10, no. 6 (2019): 400. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10060400.

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Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity, Islam, Africana (African diaspora) religions, and folk traditions such as Hoodoo and Conjure in the 20th century. Even though the treatment of Black religions in the comics was informed by stereotypical depictions of race and religion in United States (US) popular culture, African American comics creators contested these by offering alternatives

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Berger, David, and Gavin I. Langmuir. "History, Religion, and Antisemitism." American Historical Review 96, no. 5 (1991): 1498. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2165286.

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Costello, M. Starr, and Eric J. Sharpe. "Comparative Religion: A History." Philosophy East and West 39, no. 3 (1989): 362. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1399460.

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Fitzgerald, Timothy. "Japan, Religion, History, Nation." Religions 13, no. 6 (2022): 490. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13060490.

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I connect the invention of Japanese ‘religion’ since the Meiji era (1868–1912) with the invention of other modern imaginaries, particularly the Japanese Nation State and Japanese History. The invention of these powerful fictions in Japan was a specific, localised example of a global process. The real significance of this idea that religion has always existed in all times and places is that it normalises the idea of the non-religious secular as the arena of universal reason and progress. The invention of Japanese ‘religion’ had—and still has—a significant function in the wider, global context o

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Bowden, Henry Warner, and Omer C. Stewart. "Peyote Religion: A History." American Historical Review 94, no. 4 (1989): 1164. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1906744.

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Padilla, Mark W., and Robert Parker. "Athenian Religion: A History." Classical World 92, no. 2 (1998): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4352243.

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Stein, S. J. "Religion in American History." OAH Magazine of History 22, no. 1 (2008): 5–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/maghis/22.1.5.

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Moses, L. G., and Omer C. Stewart. "Peyote Religion: A History." Western Historical Quarterly 20, no. 1 (1989): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/968479.

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HekmatAfshar, Mohammad. "Religion Is Not History." OALib 11, no. 08 (2024): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1111884.

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Schultes, Richard Evans. "Peyote religion — A history." Journal of Ethnopharmacology 26, no. 3 (1989): 321–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8741(89)90106-2.

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Hampton, Carol M., and Omer C. Stewart. "Peyote Religion: A History." Journal of American History 75, no. 3 (1988): 887. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1901548.

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Chapman, Mark D. "Religion, Ethics and the History of Religion School." Scottish Journal of Theology 46, no. 1 (1993): 43–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930600038308.

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The Göttingen New Testament Professor, Wilhelm Bousset observed that historical research was in ‘danger of placing Christianity in the flux of development’, of ‘failing to give due worth to its special character and unique meaning, and thereby neutralising and relativising everything’. ‘The halo of the supernatural which had clung around “sacred history” was destroyed,’ and history had become a ‘labyrinth for modern religious liberalism’, where it threatened ‘to betray itself’. In their attempts to avoid such a relativisation of the Christian faith, most of the members of the History of Religi

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Clemmons, Thomas. "The Common, History, and the Whole: Guiding Themes in De vera religione." Augustinianum 58, no. 1 (2018): 125–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/agstm20185816.

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Augustine’s important work De uera religione has been frequently read for its Neoplatonic resonances. However, there is much in the work that cannot be reduced to this reading. Themes such as the importance of the common and public dimension of uera religio, the significance of history, and the function of ‘true religion’ toward the training and renewal of the whole human, are topoi that reveal the dynamic structure of the work. A consideration of these themes in uera rel. brings into full relief Augustine’s answer to why God acted in time and through history for the whole human race and helps

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Ginex, Nicholas P. "Provide History Of Religion And God." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 6, no. 2 (2013): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v6i2.7729.

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There is a need for high school, college, and university educators to introduce their students to a history of mankinds development of religions and beliefs in God. Regarded as too sensitive a subject, students are deprived of learning how mankind has evolved ways to establish moral and righteous behavior to maintain harmony among competing groups within a growing community. Based upon facts and findings surfaced by such respected Egyptologists as James H. Breasted and E.A. Wallis Budge, this author conclusively reveals how the first formal religion of Egypt has been emulated by the Judaic, Ch

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Bulbulia, Joseph, Joseph Bulbulia, and Edward Slingerland. "Religious Studies as a Life Science." Numen 59, no. 5-6 (2012): 564–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341240.

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AbstractReligious studies assumes that religions are naturally occurring phenomena, yet what has scholarship uncovered about this fascinating dimension of the human condition? The manifold reports that classical scholars of religion have gathered extend knowledge, but such knowledge differs from that of scientific scholarship. Classical religious studies scholarship is expansive, but it is not cumulative and progressive. Bucking the expansionist trend, however, there are a small but growing number of researchers who approach religion using the methods and models of the life sciences. We use th

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van den Heever, Gerhard. "Revisiting the Death/s of Religions." Religion and Theology 29, no. 1-2 (2022): 141–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15743012-bja10038.

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Abstract This essay responds to the essays comprising the theme issue, Do Religions Die? Theorising Death and Demise of Greek and Roman Religions. Reviewing various case studies and theoretical introductory essays of the volume, The Demise of Religion, and the special issue of Numen 68, no. 2&3 (2021), I argue that at stake are two desiderata: the first relates to defining religion (what counts as religion?), and the second relates to the historiography of the history of religions (who narrates the story of religion deaths, from which perspective, and with what rhetorical purpose?). It is

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DAGNINO, JORGE. "The Intellectuals of Italian Catholic Action and the Sacralisation of Politics in 1930s Europe." Contemporary European History 21, no. 2 (2012): 215–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777312000124.

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AbstractThere has been a growing revival of interest in the subject of political religion in recent years. However, despite this tendency, the perspective of contemporary Italian Catholics on the subject has hardly been touched upon, except by Emilio Gentile and Renato Moro. This article addresses this gap, analysing the response to the phenomenon of political religions during the 1930s by the two intellectual branches of Italian Catholic Action, namely, the FUCI and the Movimento laureati. Indeed, it was during the 1930s that these intellectuals became most aware of the novelty and danger pos

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Rüpke, Jörg. "A Methodology for the Historiography of Ancient Religion." REVISTA DE HISTORIOGRAFÍA (RevHisto), no. 36 (December 13, 2021): 13–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/revhisto.2021.6547.

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Starting from a discussion about the usefulness of a historical approach to ancient religion, I propose basing the historiography of ancient religion on a set of three concepts, replacing three others that have been widely used. First, I contend that we need to shift our focus from questions of identity to questions of agency, not least in the face of earlier traditions of historiography of regions outside the imperial capitals. The application of an agentic perspective entails a further unavoidable consequence. The concept of “religions” must be replaced by that of “lived religion”, even for

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HASSELHOFF, GÖRGE K. "Huldrych Zwinglis Verständnis von religio („Religion“)." Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 67, no. 2 (2015): 120–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700739-90000162.

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SUNDERMEIER, Theo. "The Meaning of Tribal Religions for the History of Religion." Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 5, no. 2 (1995): 169–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/sid.5.2.2004059.

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van Hoogstraten, Marius. "A Disorder of Identity: Religious Difference ‘without’ ‘Religion’." Exchange 47, no. 1 (2018): 25–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341472.

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Abstract Responding to Paul Hedges’ paper earlier in this volume, I discuss the consequences of the deconstruction of ‘religion’ for the ‘interreligious.’ First, I bring Paul Hedges’ ‘soft’ deconstruction into conversation with John Thatamanil’s comparative theology ‘after’ religion. While the former argues that religion, while always contextually situated, clearly still has ‘reality’, Thatamanil rather argues that the social reality of those practices and collectivities dubbed ‘religions’ is much more blurry and difficult than what the discourse on religion assumes. Far from a purely academic

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Vlassopoulos, Kostas. "Greek History." Greece and Rome 61, no. 2 (2014): 272–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383514000114.

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Two important recent books re-examine long-standing orthodoxies which have come under fire in recent decades. Julia Kindt challenges the orthodox model of Greek religion which has put thepolisas its central organizing principle, as manifested in the work of Christianne Sourvinou-Inwood and the Paris school. The book combines methodological and theoretical discussion with a series of case studies ranging from the Archaic period to the Second Sophistic. Kindt does not deny the value of thepolis-centred model for major aspects of Greek religious life; rather, her main disagreement is that it crea

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Seiwert, Hubert. "Theory of Religion and Historical Research. A Critical Realist Perspective on the Study of Religion as an Empirical Discipline." Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 28, no. 2 (2020): 207–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfr-2020-0001.

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AbstractThe article discusses the connection between theory formation and historical research in the study of religion. It presupposes that the study of religion is conceived of as an empirical discipline. The empirical basis of theories is provided primarily by historical research, including research in the very recent past, that is, the present time. Research in the history of religions, therefore, is an indispensable part of the study of religion. However, in recent discussions on the methods, aims, and theoretical presuppositions of the discipline, research in the history of religions larg

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