Religion Today - Aden, Ross

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Chapter 1: Welcome to the Worlds of Religion
Orientation: The Worlds of Religion
Case Study: Sightseeing and Tourism
Exploration: Inquiry into the Challenge of Learning
Retain or Revise Our Networks of Understanding?
Investigation: Major Trends in the Development of Religious Studies
The Naturalist Approach
The Founders of the Sociology and Psychology
Evaluation of the Naturalist Approaches
The Religionist Approach
The Controversy Over the Naturalist and Religionist Approaches
The Analytic Study of Religion
Evaluation of the Evolution of Religious Studies
The Characteristics of Religious Studies
Concluding Proposal: Religious Studies and Critical Thinking
Chapter 2: Defining Religion
Orientation: The Government's Definition of Religion
The Supreme Court and the Focus on Belief
Exploration: The Challenge of Defining Religion
Etymology: The Original Meaning
The Reformation and the Age of Discovery
Natural Religion and the Enlightenment
Immanuel Kant and Essentialism
Evaluation of the Definition's Development
The Etymology of the Term
The Age of Discovery's View of Religion
The Enlightenment's View of Religion
The Concept of Religious Freedom
Essentialism
Investigation: Alternatives to Essentialism
Functionalism: From What It Is to What It Does
Family Resemblance Theory
Concluding Proposal: Contextualizing the Definition of Religion
The Challenge to Binary Thinking
Religion as a Heuristic Device
Chapter 3: The Hijab, a Study in Critical Thinking
Orientation
Forms of Muslim Hijab
Discrimination against Wearing Hijab in America
Prohibition in France and Elsewhere
Compulsion in Iran and Afghanistan
Protests: Some for and Some Against Wearing Hijab
Exploration: The Research Question and Frames of Reference
Investigation: Frames for the Interpretation of Wearing Hijab
Colonialism (Orientalism)
Feminism
Islamism
Conclusions
Evaluation: Analysis of the Reasons for Wearing Hijab
The Key of Personal Agency
Concluding Proposal: The Resolution of the Seeming Contradiction
The Necessary Tools for Analysis
Chapter 4: Religious Experience and Spirituality
Orientation: The Origin and Definition of Spiritual but Not Religious
The Definition of Spirituality
Is SBNR a Rationalization or a New Form of Religiosity?
Exploration: The Pioneers of the Study of Religious Experience
William James: Healthy-Mindedness or the Sick Soul
Rudolf Otto: Non-Rational Experience and True Reality
Mircea Eliade: The Nostalgia for the Sacred
Investigation: The Classical Approaches
Common Characteristics of Religious Experience
Criticisms of the Sui Generis Characteristics
Theories that Revise the Classical Approaches
Concluding Proposal: SBNR and the Future of Religion
A New Trend of Religiosity or an Excuse for Non-Participation?
Evaluation: A Case Study in Attribution
The Theistic Storehouse of Attributions
Theist Organized Religion Is the Key to the Future
The Store of Attributions Available to the SBNR
Chapter 5: Sacred Technology, Symbol
Orientation: The Treatment of Human Remains and Objects from Ancient Graves
The Controversy
Exploration: Scientific Artifacts or Sacred Heritage?
Special Treatment in Museums
Complaints about the ...