New approaches to the study of religion. Volume 2, Textual, comparative, sociological, and cognitive approaches / edited by Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 4. Textual approaches ; New approaches to the problem of translation in the study of religion / Alan Williams -- The use of electronic media in the study of sacred texts / Gordon D. Newby -- New approaches: Literary theory / Dawne McCance.

Section 5. Comparative approaches ; Comparison in the study of religion / William E. Paden -- New approaches to the study of syncretism / Luther H. Martin and Anita Maria Leopold -- Performance theory and the study of ritual / Ronald L. Grimes -- New approaches to the study of religious dance / Helga Barbara Gundlach -- Human rights: An important and challenging new field for the study of religion / Rosalind I.J. Hackett.

Section 6. Social sciences ; A survey of advances in the sociology of religion (1980-2000) / Liliane Voyé -- Assessing secularization theory / Karel Dobbelaere -- Urbanization and religion / Robert Kisala -- Religion and diaspora / Steven Vertovec -- Approaches to the study of religion in the media / Alf G. Linderman -- Beyond "Church and State": Advances in the study of religion and law / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.

Section 7. Cognition and cross-cultural psychology ; Cognitive approaches to the study of religion / Armin W. Geertz -- The naturalness of religious concepts: An emerging cognitive science of religion / Justin L. Barrett -- Psychoanalyzing prehistory: Struggling with the unrecorded past / David A. Warburton -- Conclusion / Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, and Randi R. Warne.

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