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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.
For items in the Oxford Handbooks series, not merely any OUP title that could be called a handbook. Pages in category "Oxford Handbooks" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Handbook of Religion and Health is a scholarly book about the relation of spirituality and religion with physical and mental health. Written by Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, and David B. Larson, the first edition was published in the United States in 2001.
The second definition identified by Yoder was the view that folk religion represented the mixture of an official religion with forms of ethnic religion; this was employed to explain the place of folk religion in the syncretic belief systems of the Americas, where Christianity had blended with the religions of indigenous American and African ...
Religion past & present: Encyclopedia of theology and religion. Brill, 2007–2010. ISBN 90-04-14666-0. [5] Bishop, Peter and Michael Barton. Encyclopedia of World Faiths: An Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Religions. Facts on File, 1988. [1] Bowker, John Westerdale. The Oxford dictionary of world religions. Oxford University Press, 1997.
The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions is a reference work edited by John Bowker and published by Oxford University Press in the year 1997. It contains over 8,200 entries by leading authorities in the field of religious studies containing a topic index of 13,000 headings. There are over 80 contributors from 13 countries.
Religion is the substance, the ground, and the depth of man's spiritual life." [83] When religion is seen in terms of sacred, divine, intensive valuing, or ultimate concern, then it is possible to understand why scientific findings and philosophical criticisms (e.g., those made by Richard Dawkins) do not necessarily disturb its adherents. [84]
Hinduism had a decisive influence on the ideology of the one-man rule of the Raja, and was the dominant religion in Indonesia before the arrival of Islam. [24] The traders also established Buddhism which developed further in the following century and several Hindu and Buddhist-influenced kingdoms were established, such as Kutai , Srivijaya ...