Michael Stausberg is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen. He was formerly a fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultual and Social Studies and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His previous publications include Contemporary Theories of Religion: A Critical Companion (Routledge, 2009), Religion and Tourism: Crossroads, Destinations and Encounters (Routledge, 2010), and Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism (Equinox, 2008). He is co-editor of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism (with Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina; Wiley Blackwell, 2015) and The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion (with Steven Engler; Routledge, 2013). Steven Engler is Professor of Religious Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary. He is Professor Colaborador in the Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências da Religião at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and Affiliate Professor with the Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montréal. He is the co-editor of Historicizing Tradition in the Study of Religion (with Gregory Price Grieve; De Gruyter, 2005).
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List of Contributors
Introduction: Aims, Scope, and Organization
Part I. Religion
1: Michael Stausberg and Mark Q. Gardiner: Definition
2: Giovanni Casadio: Historicizing and Translating Religion
3: Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler: Theories of Religion
4: Heinz Streib and Constantin Klein: Religion and Spirituality
5: Lois Lee: Non-religion
Part II. Theoretical Approaches
6: Armin W. Geertz: Cognitive Science
7: Peter Seele and Lucas Zapf: Economics
8: John H. Shaver, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, and Richard Sosis: Evolutionary Theory
9: Darlene Juschka: Feminism and Gender Theory
10: Gavin Flood: Hermeneutics
11: Matthew Day: Marxism
12: Arvind Mandair: Postcolonialism
13: Mark Q. Gardiner and Steven Engler: Semantics
14: Robert A. Yelle: Semiotics
15: Paul-François Tremlett: (Post)-structuralism
16: Philip A. Mellor and Chris Shilling: Social Theory
Part III. Modes
17: Volkhard Krech: Communication
18: David Morgan: Materiality
19: Jeppe Sinding Jensen: Narrative
20: Axel Michaels and William S. Sax: Performance
21: Rosalind I. J. Hackett: Sound
22: David Chidester: Space
23: David Chidester: Time
Part IV. Environments
24: Anne Koch: Economy
25: Benjamin Schonthal: Law
26: Oliver Krüger: Media
27: Adrian Ivakhiv: Nature
28: Pamela Klassen: Medicine
29: Hubert Seiwert: Politics
30: Laura J. Vollmer and Kocku von Stuckrad: Science
Sports
Tourism
Part V. Topics
33: Jason C. Bivins: Belief
34: John Corrigan: Emotion
35: Craig Martin: Experience
36: Christoph Auffarth: Gift and Sacrifice
37: Gustavo Benavides: Gods
38: Henrik Bogdan: Initiation and Transitions
39: Manfred Hutter: Priests, Prophets, Sorcerers
40: Hugh B. Urban: Purity
41: Gavin Flood: Salvation
Part VI. Processes
42: Steve Bruce: Differentiation
43: Albert de Jong: The Disintegration and Death of Religions
44: Asonzeh Ukah: Expansion
45: Manuel A. Vásquez and David Garbin: Globalization
46: Jörg Rüpke: Individualization and Privatization
47: Olav Hammer: Tradition and Innovation
48: Jeremy Carrette: Objectification and Commodification
49: Paul Christopher Johnson: Syncretism and Hybridization
Part VII. The Discipline
50: Michael Stausberg: History
51: Thomas A. Tweed: Relevance
