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Online version of Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed., published in print in 2005. It includes almost all the original 2,750 entries (many updated) from the first edition edited by Mircea Eliade and published in 1987 plus almost 600 new articles.
Preserving the best of Eliade's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century.
About the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion combines the speed and flexibility of digital with the rigorous standards of academic publishing.
New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge A Christian encyclopedia written from a Protestant viewpoint. Covers a wide range of topics, including church history, comparative religion, geography, doctrinal theology, archeology, and biblical studies.
Encyclopedia of religion. This second edition, which is intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles.
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion seeks to provide accurate, scholarly information about the world’s many religions and topics of research and debate. It will grow and evolve continuously, compiling over time an extensive collection of vetted essays.
Welcome to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Learn more about our Editorial Board. Browse the growing collection of articles, overviews and key subject works. Discover forthcoming articles in the ORE of Religion. Learn more.
"The Encyclopedia of Religion, first published in 1987, sought 'to introduce educated, nonspecialist readers to important ideas, practices, and persons in the religious experience of...
Eliade, assisted by ten well-known editors and an impressive group of contributors, has produced a monumental encyclopedia that aptly reflects contemporary religious scholarship and interdisciplinary influences from the humanities, the fine arts, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.
The typical narrative of American religious history is white and Protestant, and alternative religious movements have provided both criticism and approval of that story. While a close look at every alternative religious movement would be impossible, even an abbreviated exploration is revealing.