New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion (häftad)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
80
Utgivningsdatum
2024-02-22
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
Swartz, Karen
Illustrationer
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 4 mm
Vikt
118 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781009014595

New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion

av Olav Hammer
Häftad,  Engelska, 2024-02-22
279
Köp
Spara som favorit
  • Skickas från oss inom 7-10 vardagar.
  • Fri frakt över 249 kr för privatkunder i Sverige.
Finns även som
Visa alla 3 format & utgåvor
This Element provides an introduction to a number of less frequently explored approaches based upon the comparative study of religions. New religions convey origin myths, present their particular views of history, and craft Endtime scenarios. Their members carry out a vast and diverse array of ritual activities. They produce large corpuses of written texts and designate a subset of these as a sacrosanct canon. They focus their attention on material objects that can range from sacred buildings to objects from the natural world that are treated in ritualized fashion. The reason for this fundamental similarity between older and newer religions is briefly explored in terms of the cognitive processes that underlie religious concepts and practices. A final section returns to the issue of how such shared processes take specific shapes in the context of modern, Western societies.
Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

  1. New Religious Movements and Comparative Religion
  2. +
  3. The Practice of Not Thinking

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt The Practice of Not Thinking av Ryunosuke Koike (häftad).

Köp båda 2 för 408 kr

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av Olav Hammer

Visa alla böcker av Olav Hammer »

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Myths; 3. Rituals; 4. Material objects in new religious movements; 5. Texts; 6. New religions in comparative perspective; References.

Du kanske gillar