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- While religious practices have changed, the essential aspects of each religion are ancient. By studying ancient religious ideas, we are compelled to study other disciplines such as history, philosophy, and sociology.
www.amu.apus.edu/area-of-study/arts-and-humanities/resources/why-study-religion/Why Study Religion? 5 Reasons to Pursue the Study of Religion
By studying different religious doctrines, rituals, stories, and scriptures, we can also come to understand how different communities of believers—past and present, East and West—have used their religious traditions to shape, sustain, transform themselves.
The contemporary archaeological study of ancient religions is a deeply multidisciplinary endeavor, frequently requiring archaeologists to engage with theories, methods, and specialists from fields that may include anthropology, religious studies, archaeometry, art history, philology, and more.
We start from the premise that Roman religion, as a set of practices and rituals with a series of objects and buildings as its accoutrements and setting, was fundamentally rooted in visual and material culture. Scholarship on Roman religion and Roman art has painted the two in parallel lines.
- Philippa Adrych, Dominic Dalglish
- 2020
Religious Studies is a diversified and multi-faceted discipline focusing on the study of specific traditions and the general nature of religion as a human phenomenon. It spans cultures around the world, ancient as well as modern.
In short, religion is inseparable from the ways we think about what unites us and what divides us on local, national, or global scales. Pursuing religious studies therefore brings us to the heart of the most relevant and vexing questions in the humanities and social sciences today.
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Jan 11, 2023 · Recently, the paradigm of “Lived Ancient Religion” (LAR) has opened new perspectives on religion as “in the making” in the ancient Mediterranean, based on phenomenological ideas (with all their limitations).
