Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Section 1. A Surfey of New Approaches in Various Parts of the World
5. New Approaches to the Study of Religion in North America 13
6. A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in Europe 43
7. The Study of Religion, the History of Religions and Islamic Studies in Turkey 63
8. The Study of Religion and Social Crises 101
9. A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in India 127
10. A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in Australia and the Pacific 147
11. Section 2. Critical Approaches
12. Philosophy and Religion 185
13. Meaning and Religion 219
14. Religion in Context 253
15. Ideological Critique in the Study of Religion 271
16. Gendering the History of Religion 295
17. Critical Trends in the Study of Religion in the United States 317
18. New Approaches to the Study of Religion and Culture 345
19. Section 3. Historical Approaches
20. Religion and the Internet 385
21. New Approaches to the Study of New Religions in North America and Europe 407
22. New Approaches to the Study of the New Fundamentalisms 437
23. Zen and the Art of Inverting Orientalism 451
24. The Study of Western Esotericism 489
25. Backmatter 521