This volume brings together diverse voices from various fields within religious and theological studies for a conversation about the proper objects, goals, and

Why do people study religion? How have they studied it in the past? How do we study religion today? Is the academic study of religion the same as religious educ

It has been argued that religious studies is a polymethodic discipline, and that the student of religion should be familiar with the approaches of the major dis

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the study of religions in Sweden, from the early twentieth century to the present and shows how the intersecti

Waardenburg’s magisterial essay traces the rise and development of the academic study of religion from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, outlin