{"id":160,"date":"2019-03-07T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-religion-methods\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2020-04-23T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T11:39:05","slug":"conceptualising-religion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/religion-methods\/topics\/conceptualising-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptualising religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/religionmethods\/documents\/Conceptualising%20religion%20reading%20list.pdf\">PDF version of this bibliography<\/a><b>\u00a0is also available.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Asad, T. (1993)\u00a0<em>Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam<\/em>. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Beckford, J. (2003)\u00a0<em>Social Theory and Religion<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Braun, W. and McCutcheon, R. T. (eds) (2000)\u00a0<em>Guide to the Study of Religion<\/em>. New York: Cassell.<\/p>\n<p>Braun, W. and McCutcheon, R. T. (eds) (2009)<em>\u00a0Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor<\/em>\u00a0of Jonathan Z. Smith. London and Oakville: Equinox.<\/p>\n<p>Csordas, T. (2004) \u2018Asymptote of the ineffable: embodiment, alterity and the theory of religion\u2019,<em>\u00a0Current Anthropology<\/em>, 45(2), 163-85.<\/p>\n<p><em>Culture and Religion<\/em>, review symposium on Manufacturing Religion by R. T. McCutcheon, 1:1 (2000).<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald, T. (2000)\u00a0<em>The Ideology of Religious Studies<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>McCutcheon, R. T. (1997)\u00a0<em>Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of<br \/>\nNostalgia<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n<p>McCutcheon, R. T. (2003)\u00a0<em>The Discipline of Religion<\/em>. London and New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n<p>McCutcheon, R. T. (2005)\u00a0<em>Studying Religion: An Introduction<\/em>. London and Oakville: Equinox.<\/p>\n<p><em>Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, special issue on Conceptualising Religion<\/em>\u00a0by Benson Saler, 12: 1-4 (2000).<\/p>\n<p>Nye, M. (2000),\u00a0<em>\u2018<\/em>Religion, post-religionism, and religioning: religious studies and contemporary cultural debates\u2019,\u00a0<em>Method and Theory in the Study of Religion<\/em>\u00a012: 3, 447-76.<\/p>\n<p>Nye, M. (2008),<em>\u00a0Religion: The Basics,<\/em>\u00a0second edition. London and New York: Routledge.<\/p>\n<p>Saler, B. (2000) [1993]\u00a0<em>Conceptualising Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories<\/em>. New York: Berghahn Books.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, J. Z. (1982),<em>\u00a0Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown.<\/em>\u00a0Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, J. Z. (1998),\u00a0<em>\u2018<\/em>Religion, religions, religious<em>\u2018<\/em>, in M. Taylor (ed.)\u00a0<em>Critical Terms for Religious Studies<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Staussberg, M. (2009)\u00a0<em>Contemporary Theories of Religion: A Critical Companion<\/em>. London: Routledge.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, M. (ed.) (1998)\u00a0<em>Critical Terms for Religious Studies.<\/em>\u00a0Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Tweed, T. (2008)\u00a0<em>Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion.<\/em>\u00a0Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Veer, P. (2001)\u00a0<em>Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain<\/em>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n<p>de Vries, H. (ed.) (2007)<em>\u00a0Religion: Beyond a Concept.<\/em>\u00a0New York: Fordham University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0PDF version of this bibliography\u00a0is also available. Asad, T. (1993)\u00a0Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Beckford, J. (2003)\u00a0Social Theory and Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Braun, W. and McCutcheon, R. T. (eds) (2000)\u00a0Guide to the Study of Religion. New York: Cassell. Braun, W. 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