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The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion is a scholarly book about the academic study of religion. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler , the book was published in the United Kingdom in 2016.
Lewis, a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, has been a prolific author and editor of books on new religious movements such as The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements (2004); he also edits the Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion series and is co-editor of Ashgate's Controversial New Religions series. [68]
The leaders of the first generation of the Anglo-Catholic revival or Oxford Movement (i.e., Newman, Edward Bouverie Pusey, and John Keble) had been primarily concerned with theological and ecclesiological questions and had little concern with questions of ritual. They championed the view that the fundamental identity of the Church of England ...
Belief in the Past: The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion: 2004 n/a: Archaeopress (Oxford) 1841715751 Archaeology, Religion, Ritual: 2004 n/a: Routledge (London) 0415253136 The Land of Enki in the Islamic Era: Pearls, Palms, and Religious Identity in Bahrain: 2005 n/a: Kegan Paul (London) 0710309600
They earned this title because of their shared interest in ritual, specifically their attempts to explain myth and early forms of classical drama as originating in ritual, mainly the ritual seasonal killings of eniautos daimon, or the Year-King. [1] They are also sometimes referred to as the myth and ritual school, or as the Classical ...
[3] Some of these scholars (e.g., W. Robertson-Smith, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, S. H. Hooke) supported the "primacy of ritual" hypothesis, which claimed that "every myth is derived from a particular ritual and that the syntagmatic quality of myth is a reproduction of the succession of ritual act."
Religion may be defined as "a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs," [1] whereas ritual is "an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or ...
The rise of modern paganism was aided by the decline in Christianity throughout many parts of Europe and North America, [95] as well as by the concomitant decline in enforced religious conformity and greater freedom of religion that developed, allowing people to explore a wider range of spiritual options and form religious organisations that ...