WHY STUDY RELIGION? WHAT IS RELIGION? SOME MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT STUDYING RELIGION PRESSING CONCERNS IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION WHAT WILL I STUDY? WHERE CAN I GO WITH IT? WHERE DO I START?

Books

  • Dynamics of Faith, Paul Tillich
  • The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Emile Durkheim
  • Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud
  • The Idea of the Holy, Rudolf Otto
  • The Interpretation of Cultures, Clifford Geertz
  • A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age, edited by Kimberley Patton
  • Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung
  • Patterns in Comparative Religion, Mircea Eliade
  • The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
  • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber
  • Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, Mary Douglas
  • Readings in Ritual Studies, edited by Ronald Grimes
  • Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity, edited by Craig R. Prentiss
  • Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline, Walter H. Capps
  • The Rites of Passage, Arnold van Gennep
  • The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner
  • The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, Mircea Eliade
  • Seven Theories of Religion, Daniel Pals.
  • Theology and Culture, Paul Tillich
  • Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
  • Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, Andrew Newberg, Eugene d'Aquili, and Vince Rause
  • Why Religion Matters, Huston Smith
  • Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, edited by Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow

GENERAL REFERENCE
THEORY AND METHOD
BUDDHISM
CHINESE RELIGIONS
CHRISTIANITY
INDIAN RELIGIONS
INDIGENOUS AND ANCIENT RELIGIONS
ISLAM
JAPANESE RELIGIONS
JUDAISM
RELIGION IN AMERICA
ZOROASTRIANISM
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