RT Book
T1 Death, life and laughter: essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies
A2 Guest, Mathew 1975-
A2 Middlemiss Lé Mon, Martha 1978-
A2 Davies, Douglas J. 1947-
LA English
PP London New York
PB Ashgate
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1625182856
AB Introduction: Transgressing Boundaries / Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon and Mathew Guest -- Part I: Cultures of Meaning and Religious Identity -- 1. The Book of Mormon: The American Gospel? / Seth Kunin -- 2. Death, Sometimes, Has its Price? How Douglas Davies and Sergio Leone Cope with Capitalism and Change / James Crossley -- 3. Mormonism and the Fourth-Century Search for a Christian Doctrine of God -- Grant Underwood -- 4. Words and Deeds against Exclusion: Deprivation, Activism and Religiosity in Inner-city Birmingham / Christian Karner and David Parker -- Part II: Ritual, Symbolism and Identity -- 5. Religion and Ritual Markers between the Public and the Private: Funerary Rites in Sweden / Anders Bäckström -- 6. Facing existential meaning challenges through a post-secular clinical model: Swedish case illustrations following abortion -- Valerie DeMarinis -- 7. The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the Introduction and Reception of a Sacred Tree / Charles Watkins -- Part III: Disciplinary Identity and the Boundaries of Understanding -- 8. Hope and creativity: the shifting nexus between religion and development / James Beckford -- 9. Theology, Social Science, and the ¿Power¿ of Religion and of the Spirit / David Martin -- 10. Called to Speak: Language, Meaning and the Status of Research Data / Matthew Wood -- 11. Where does Islamic Studies Fit? / Hugh Goddard -- 12. From Jevons to Collini (via Douglas Davies): Reflections on Higher Education and Religious Identity / Mathew Guest -- 13. A Break from Prose: Defying the Boundaries of Genre / Eleanor Nesbitt -- 14. An Inquisitive Presence: Thinking with Douglas Davies on the Study of Religion / Michael Thate
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL25
SN 9781472427700
SN 9781409457022
K1 Davies, Douglas James
K1 Religious Life
K1 Spirituality
K1 Religion and sociology
K1 Self-perception : Religious aspects
K1 Religion
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Festschrift