Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 âReligions are belief systemsâ -- The problems with belief -- The problem with âreligions are belief systemsâ: The case of American religions -- Conclusion --...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Critiquing Religion: Discourse, Culture, Power Ser
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| Further subjects: | B
Religion
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Stoddard, Brad: Stereotyping Religion : Critiquing Clichés. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2017. - 9781474292191 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 âReligions are belief systemsâ -- The problems with belief -- The problem with âreligions are belief systemsâ: The case of American religions -- Conclusion -- 2 âReligions are intrinsically violentâ -- Some brief historical background -- Religions are intrinsically peaceful clichés -- Some examples of the cliché in popular culture -- Conclusion -- 3 âReligion makes people moralâ -- What is morality? What is religion? -- Gods, morality, and cognitive evolution -- Modes of religiosity -- Behaving badly with God on your side -- Big gods and surveillance -- Conclusion -- 4 âReligion concerns the transcendentâ -- Otto and Eliade: Manufacturers of âthe sacredâ -- Scholars and the sacred -- The sacred is everywhere: Modern uses of the sacred concept -- 5 âReligion is a private matterâ -- Clarifying this cliché -- A caveat -- The history behind the cliché -- Religion as âprivateâ in the study of religion -- Historicizing the present -- 6 âReligions are mutually exclusiveâ -- The unstated cliché -- Development of the cliché -- The power of the cliché -- 7 âIâm spiritual but not religiousâ -- Making meaning -- Situated meaning -- Not Taking Meaning for Granted -- Applications to claims of being âspiritual but not religiousâ -- 8 âLearning about religion leads to toleranceâ -- Christian ecumenical origins -- Modern developments -- Popular success and critique -- Conclusion -- 9 âEveryone has a faithâ -- Hidden assumptions of the cliché -- Inventing âfaithâ as human nature -- James Fowler and the Stages of Faith -- The stereotype in American popular culture -- Conclusion: The power of cliché in everyday life -- 10 âReligion is bullshitâ Social contexts: Bullshiters and bullshitees -- Modality oneâskepticism: Religion is bullshit because it is âfalseâ -- Modality two â dissent and disdain: Religion is bullshit because it is âmorally wrongâ -- Modality three â despair: Religion is bullshit because it is âterribleâ -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Index |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1474292216 |