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The Craft of Religious Studies

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  • © 1998

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  1. Jon R. Stone

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Jon R. Stone
    Pages 1-17

  3. Methods in My Life

    • Ninian Smart
    Pages 18-35

  4. From Great Neck to Swift Hall: Confessions of a Reluctant Historian of Religions

    • Wendy Doniger
    Pages 36-51

  5. There is No Religion There

    • Frits Staal
    Pages 52-75

  6. Climbing the Foothills of Understanding

    • John Hick
    Pages 76-97

  7. From History to Religion

    • Jacob Neusner
    Pages 98-116

  8. Theological Autobiography

    • James M. Robinson
    Pages 117-150

  9. Half a Life in Religious Studies: Confessions of an ‘Historical Historian’

    • Martin E. Marty
    Pages 151-174

  10. On Theory-Driven Methods

    • Rodney Stark
    Pages 175-196

  11. On Studying Religion

    • Andrew M. Greeley
    Pages 197-212

  12. Of Churches, Courts, and Moral Order

    • Phillip E. Hammond
    Pages 213-239

  13. Religion as Life and Text: Postmodern Re-figurations

    • Edith Wyschogrod
    Pages 240-257

  14. Retracings

    • Mark C. Taylor
    Pages 258-276

  15. Who Are You Really, and What Were You Before?: Reflections on a Thinking Life

    • Giles Gunn
    Pages 277-299

  16. The Rest is History

    • Ivan Strenski
    Pages 300-324

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 325-335
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About this book

A collection of essays by distinguished scholars in the academic study of religion, The Craft of Religious Studies represents the variety of research and analytical methods that researchers employ when examining religious phenomena, whether personally or socially expressed. Autobiographical in cast, this collection points to diversity of approaches in the academic study of religion and highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the field. While the ways scholars approach the study of religion in human culture vary, the common ground among them - as seen in these fourteen contributions - remains their quest for understanding more so than the paths toward understanding they have chosen.

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  • University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Jon R. Stone

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Jon R. Stone currently teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of On the Boundaries of American Evangelicalism (SMP).

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