RT Book
T1 Worldview religious studies
T2 Routledge focus on religion
A1 Davies, Douglas J. 1947-
LA English
PP London New York, NY
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1800595751
AB "Worldview Religious Studies brings the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life under the overarching scheme of worldview studies. This book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a framework specific to religious studies. The drive for meaning-making is explored through ritual-symbolic activities, ideas of 'play', and the power of emotions to transform simple ideas into values and beliefs that frame identity and signpost destiny. Identity and its sacralisation are discussed alongside gift/reciprocity theory in their relation to ideas of merit, karma, and salvation in Eastern and Western traditions. This theoretical background is used to introduce a new classification of worldviews - natural, scientific, ancestral, karmic, prophetic-sectarian, mystical, and ideological. Organised thematically by chapter, this book brings together familiar and unfamiliar authors, theories, and sources to challenge students and teachers of Religious Studies, Theology, and Ethics. It introduces worldview religious studies as a framework through which to re-think human endeavours to identify, cope and even transcend life's flaws and perils"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
SN 9781003242437
SN 100324243X
SN 9781000579574
SN 1000579573
SN 9781000579598
SN 100057959X
K1 Philosophy and religion
K1 Religion : Philosophy
K1 Religions
K1 RELIGION / General
DO 10.4324/9781003242437