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Religion is increasingly visible in the contemporary world as a complex phenomenon – requiring multidisciplinary research to do justice to the complexity. Multidisciplinary research is however, though lauded by many, notoriously difficult to bring to fruition. This volume takes on the challenge to bridge the gap.
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- Doing Multidisciplinary Research on Religion
Religion is increasingly visible in the contemporary world as a complex phenomenon - requiring multidisciplinary research to do justice to the complexity. Multidisciplinary research is however, though lauded by many, notoriously difficult to bring to fruition. This volume takes on the challenge to bridge the gap. Contributions formulate the challenges many have faced, but few yet analysed and ...
- March 06, 2024
Having said that one thing we have taken with us is the breadth of multidisciplinary research in the field of studies of religion and the potential it has to enable researchers of religions to reach audiences (both academic and non) and address challenges where religion is an important factor, but perhaps not the central question.
The academic study of religion uses multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary methods because of the nature of religion and the interaction between religious practice and religious studies. Prior to modernity, the study and practice of religion were integrated and separate disciplines were often assumed to study a unified subject.
Jul 18, 2017 · Looking beyond religious studies, not in a temporal but in a spatial sense, this introductory chapter identifies openings for multidisciplinary research and reflection in the study of material ...
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May 12, 2011 · At the very least, psychologists of religion need to engage the sociology of religion (for example, see the work of Yang 2004, 2005, 2006), anthropology of religion (see Gooren 2010 for a new model of conversion based upon his anthropological studies), and religious studies. It is clear that the phenomenon of religion is inextricably interconnected with cultural, social, and personal factors ...