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Paperback Understanding Religion Book

ISBN: 0715617354

ISBN13: 9780715617359

Understanding Religion

Clears the ground for students who are setting out to understand, rather than just to practice, religion. It discusses, among other things, the relationship between commitment to a particular tradition and the quest for intellectual understanding of religion "in the round", "holiness" as an identifying aspect of religion, functional "modes" of religion, and finally some questions connected with the
secularization process.
Assuming throughout...

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Format: Paperback

Condition: New

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Informative, thoughtful, and interesting

This little book is really a long essay on what is involved in understanding a religion. It has an almost conversational tone, as he talks about the various topics that arise in teaching students. Well, they are the same topics that arise for their professors or, for that matter, for any of us: religious experience, religious institutions and authorities, religion and culture, and so forth. These topics are discussed with a point of view that balances a sympathy for religion (and perhaps even a religious commitment) with scholarly distance. The reader learns the lay of the land in contemporary religious studies from a thoughtful, engaging tour guide. Sharpe is good company.
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