Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Notwithstanding the long interest in the study of religion, the academic discipline Religious Studies is relatively new. Christopher Partridge notes that the "first professorships were established as recently as the final quarter of the nineteenth century." [20] In the nineteenth century, the study of religion was done through the eyes of science.
Religious studies is the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions.It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.
Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. [1]
The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of the academic study of religion.It is published by Equinox Press on behalf of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion and was established in 1988 as the Australian Religion Studies Review, obtaining its current title in 2005.
In Japan, the academic study of new religions appeared in the years following the Second World War. [11] [12]In the 1960s, American sociologist John Lofland lived with Unification Church missionary Young Oon Kim and a small group of American church members in California and studied their activities in trying to promote their beliefs and win new members.
The American Academy of Religion (AAR) is the world's largest association of scholars in the field of religious studies and related topics. It is a nonprofit member association, serving as a professional and learned society for scholars involved in the academic study of religion.
The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JSSR) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell in the United States under the auspices of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, dedicated to publishing scholarly articles in the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, and anthropology, devoted to the study of religion.
Scholars in religious studies, the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviors, and institutions. Includes anthropology of religion , sociology of religion , psychology of religion , philosophy of religion and history of religion .