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Contents PETER ANTES, ARMIN W. GEERTZ, and RANDI R. WARNE Introduction 1 Section 1 A Survey of New Approaches in Various Parts of the World RANDI R. WARNE New Approaches to the Study of Religion in North America 13 PETER ANTES A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in Europe 43 BÜLENT SENAY The Study of Religion, the History of Religions and Islamic Studies in Turkey: Approaches from "Phenomenological Theology" to Contextualism 63 ABDULKADER TAYOB The Study of Religion and Social Crises: Arab-Islamic Discourse in Late Twentieth Century 101 PRATAP KUMAR A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in India 127 GARRY W. TROMPF A Survey of New Approaches to the Study of Religion in Australia and the Pacific 147 Section 2 Critical Approaches MORNY M. JOY Philosophy and Religion 185 JEPPE SINDING JENSEN Meaning and Religion: On Semantics in the Study of Religion 219 KIRSTEN HASTRUP Religion in Context: A Discussion of Ontological Dumping 253 IVAN STRENSKI Ideological Critique in the Study of Religion: Real Thinkers, Real Contexts and a Little Humility 271 LISBETH MIKAELSSON Gendering the History of Religions 295 RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON Critical Trends in the Study of Religion in the United States 317 MARK HULSETHER New Approaches to the Study of Religion and Culture 345 Section 3 Historical Approaches LORNE L. DAWSON Religion and the Internet: Presence, Problems, and Prospects 385 JEAN-FRANÇOIS MAYER New Approaches to the Study of New Religions in North America and Europe 407 PETER ANTES New Approaches to the Study of the New Fundamentalisms 437 JØRN BORUP Zen and the Art of Inverting Orientalism: Buddhism, Religious Studies and Interrelated Networks 451 WOUTER J. HANEGRAAFF The Study of Western Esotericism: New Approaches to Christian and Secular Culture 489 List of Contributors 521 Index of Names 525 Index of Subjects 545
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Religion -- Study and teaching -- History -- 20th century.