Religion is alive and well in the modern world, and the social-scientific study of religion is undergoing a renaissance. For much of this century, respected soc

The past three decades have witnessed a significant transatlantic and trans-disciplinary resurgence of interest in the early nineteenth-century Protestant theol

This volume brings together divergent voices in religious and theological studies for a conversation about the proper objects, methods, and goals for the study

Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World's Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dom

"This book asks: Can the study of religion be justified? It poses this question on the view that scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method,