Auteur: Barbara Jane Davy

Jaar: 2007

Druk: niet vermeld

ISBN: 9780759108196 / 0759108196

Taal: Engels

245 pagina's

Uitgeverij: Altamira Press, UK

Paperback, tweedehands, in nette staat.

Achterflaptekst:

Pagan Studies is maturing and moving beyond the context of new religious movements to situate itself within the study of world religions. Introduction to Pagan Studies is the first and only text designed to introduce the study of contemporary Paganism as a world religion. It examines the intellectual, religious, and social spheres of Paganism through common categories in the study of religion, which include beliefs, practices, theology, ritual, history, and the role of texts and scriptures. The book is accessible to readers of all backgrounds and religions assumes no prior knowledge of Paganism.

This text will also serve as a general introduction to Pagan Studies for non-specialist scholars of religion. It will be of interest-to academics if the related. disciplines of Anthropology, Sociology, and Cultural Studies as well as students taking courses in Religious Studies, Pagan Studies, Nature Religion, New. Religious Movements, and Religion in America. This book will also be useful , to nonacademic practitioners of Paganism interested in current scholarship.

Barbara Jane Davy holds a Ph.D. in religion from Concordia University, Montreal. She has been engaged in the academic study of Paganism for ten years, and has written articles published in journals and encyclopedias on Paganism, shamanism, and nature religion ritual studies, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She currently serves as president of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada and has been an active member of the Nature Religion Scholars Network within the American Academy of Religion since 1997.

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