Contents
1. The Copernican Turn in the Study of Religion
RICHARD KING
PART 1: HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS/GENEALOGIES
2. Nominalist “Judaism” and the Late-Ancient Invention of Religion
DANIEL BOYARIN
WARD BLANTON AND YVONNE SHERWOOD
4. Hegel: On Secularity and the Religion-Making Machine
ARVIND MANDAIR
5. Friedrich Max Müller and the Science of Religion
LOURENS VAN DEN BOSCH
6. Classic Comparative Theology and the Study of Religion
HUGH NICHOLSON
7. Religion, Religious Studies, and Shinto in Modern Japan
JUN’ICHI ISOMAE
PART 2: THE ENLIGHTENMENT CRITIQUE OF RELIGION
RANDALL STYERS
JAY GELLER
10. Nietzsche: Life, Works, Reception
TYLER ROBERTS
VOLNEY GAY
TERRY REY
13. “Religion” in the Writings of the New Atheists
TINA BEATTIE
PART 3: RELIGION BEYOND THE WEST
14. Indigenous African Traditions as Models for Theorizing Religion
EDWARD P. ANTONIO
15. Zongjiao and the Category of Religion in China
YA-PEI KUO
16. Islamic Dīn as an Alternative to Western Models of “Religion”
AHMET T. KARAMUSTAFA
ARVIND MANDAIR
PART 4: RELIGION AS EXPERIENCE
18. The Psychology of Religion
JEREMY CARRETTE
19. William James and the Study of Religion: A Critical Reading
JEREMY CARRETTE AND DAVID LAMBERTH
20. Rudolf Otto and the Idea of the Holy
GREGORY ALLES
VOLNEY GAY
22. Religion and the Brain: Cognitive Science as a Basis for Theories of Religion
ILKKA PYYSIÄINEN
23. A Critical Response to Cognitivist Theories of Religion
STEVEN ENGLER AND MARK QUENTIN GARDINER
PART 5: RELIGION, LANGUAGE, AND MYTH
24. “Religion” in Anglo-American (Analytical) Philosophy of Religion
LUDGER VIEFHUES-BAILEY
25. Structuralist Linguistics and Structuralist Theories of Religion
VOLNEY GAY
26. Imagining, Manufacturing, and Theorizing Myth: An Overview of Key Theories of Myth and Religion
DANIEL DUBUISSON
PART 6: RELIGION/SOCIETY/CULTURE
BRYAN S. TURNER
SIMON SPECK
29. Classical Anthropological Theories of Religion
RANDALL STYERS
30. Defining Religion: Geertz and Asad
JON P. MITCHELL
31. Religion, Media, and Cultural Studies
RICHARD FOX
PART 7: RELIGION, RITUAL, AND ACTION
ULRIKE BRUNOTTE
ULRIKE BRUNOTTE
34. From Ritual to Ritualization
JON P. MITCHELL
35. Religion and Theories of Action
KOCKU VON STUCKRAD
PART 8: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION AND ITS CRITICS
36. Phenomenology of Religion: The Philosophical Background
CHARLES E. SCOTT
37. The Phenomenology of Religion
JAMES L. COX
GREGORY ALLES
WILLIAM ARNAL
40. Critical Religion: “Religion” Is Not a Stand-Alone Category
TIMOTHY FITZGERALD
PART 9: RELIGION AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN THOUGHT
NELSON MALDONADO-TORRES
42. Pierre Bourdieu on Religion
TERRY REY
43. Jacques Derrida on Religion
ELLEN ARMOUR
44. Foucault and the Study of Religion
JEREMY CARRETTE
45. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and the “Return of the Religious”
RANDALL STYERS
PART 10: RELIGION, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
46. Feminist Approaches to the Study of Religion
DARLENE JUSCHKA
47. French Feminism and Religion
MORNY JOY
48. Queer Theory Meets Critical Religion: Are We Starting to Think Yet?
NAOMI R. GOLDENBERG
PART 11: RELIGION, COLONIALITY AND RACE
49. Religion, Modernity, and Coloniality
NELSON MALDONADO-TORRES
50. Apartheid Comparative Religion in South Africa
DAVID CHIDESTER
51. Theorizing Race and Religion: Du Bois, Cox, and Fanon
WILLIAM DAVID HART
52. Black Cultural Criticism, the New Politics of Difference, and Religious Criticism
VICTOR ANDERSON
53. Theorizing Black Religious Studies: A Genealogy
VICTOR ANDERSON
PART 12: RELIGION/NATION/GLOBALIZATION
WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH
GREGORY ALLES
56. Globalization and Religion
JEREMY CARRETTE