{"product_id":"interpreting-religion-1750974371970","title":"Interpreting Religion","description":"The term \u003ci\u003ereligion\u003c\/i\u003e is indispensable to the subject matter of both religious studies and theology. Many approaches attempt a reductive , essentialist, functionalist, or other type of unifying definition, but these approaches tend to rest on various, often controversial sets of presuppositions. Indeed, it seems impossible to overcome the vast plurality of understandings of \u003ci\u003ereligion\u003c\/i\u003e as the academic fields that deal with religion splinter and proliferate, thereby inhibiting the rational treatment of a very important dimension of modern society. The present volume undertakes an intense interdisciplinary examination of a seminal modern text that religious scholars agree helped spawn religious studies and modern theology as we know it, namely Schleiermacher's \u003ci\u003eReden uber die Religion\u003c\/i\u003e , which lays out the most important and controversial themes under discussion by theologians and religious studies scholars: first, the significance of emotion for the understanding of religion; second, the role of imagination and religious utterances in religious belief; third, the importance of religion for the social world; and fourth, the political implications of religion.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMit Beitragen von:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndreas Arndt\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThorsten Dietz\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eAndrew Dole\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThomas Erne\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eVolker Gerhardt\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eWilhelm Grab\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eMathias Gutmann\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eHans Joas\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eJorg Lauster\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eGeorg Northoff\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eWayne Proudfoot\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThandeka\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eTheodore Vial\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Dietrch Kos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50766714143012,"sku":"9783161508530","price":70.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/interpreting-religion-1750974371970","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}