Unlike other humanistic disciplines, the academic study of religion must contend with a phenomenon that touches every dimension of human experience. For scholars so engaged, the study of religion often becomes a cross-cultural as well as a necessarily interdisciplinary endeavor. In this collection of original essays, Jon R. Stone has brought together the intellectual autobiographies of fourteen senior scholars - all with national or international reputations in their respective fields - each of whom reflects upon his or her own theoretical assumptions and methodological approaches to the study of religion. Taken together, these essays represent the variety of research methods and interpretive rigor mature scholars bring to the task of examining religious phenomena, religious actions, religious movements, and religious ideas.

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University of California, Berkeley, USA

Jon R. Stone

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Book Title: The Craft of Religious Studies
Editors: Jon R. Stone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-63214-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23887-2Published: 01 December 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-63214-5Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 335
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Religion and Education, Education, general

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