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[[Image:Religious syms.svg|thumb|Various [[List of symbols#Religious, esoteric, metaphysical and mystical symbols|religious symbols]]]] '''Religious studies''', or '''Religious education''', is the [[academia|academic]] field of multi-disciplinary, [[secular]] study of [[religion|religious]] beliefs, behaviors, and institutions. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically-based, and cross-cultural perspectives.
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== Intrests ==
While [[theology]] attempts to understand God, religious studies tries to study human religious behavior and belief from outside any particular religious viewpoint. Religious studies draws upon multiple disciplines and their methodologies including [[anthropology of religion|anthropology]], [[sociology of religion|sociology]], [[psychology of religion|psychology]], [[philosophy of religion|philosophy]], and [[history of religions|history of religion]].


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Religious studies originated in the nineteenth century, when scholarly and historical analysis of the Bible had flourished, and Hindu and [[Buddhist texts]] were first being translated into European languages. Early influential scholars included [[Friedrich Max Müller]], in England, and [[Cornelis Petrus Tiele|Cornelius P. Tiele]], in the Netherlands. Today religious studies is practiced by scholars worldwide.
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In its early years, it was known as [[Comparative Religion]] or the '''Science of Religion''' and, in the USA, there are those who today also know the field as the [[History of Religion]] (associated with methodological traditions traced to the University of Chicago in general, and in particular [[Mircea Eliade]], from the late 1950s through to the late 1980s). The field is known as ''Religionswissenschaft'' in Germany and ''Sciences de la religion'' in the French-speaking world.
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==Religious studies vs. theology==
Western [[philosophy of religion]], as the basic ancestor of modern religious studies, is differentiated from theology and the many Eastern philosophical traditions by generally being written from a third party perspective. The scholar need not be a believer. [[Theology]] stands in contrast to the philosophy of religion and religious studies in that, generally, the scholar is first and foremost a believer employing both logic ''and'' scripture as evidence. At least one theologian {{who?|date=June 2007}} has noted that one can study and analyze a symphony to understand it in great detail, but it is the listening that is of greatest significance.


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==Intellectual foundation and background==
Before religious studies became a field in its own right (e.g., flourishing in the US as of the late-1960s), several key intellectual figures explored religion from a variety of perspectives. One of these figures was the famous [[Pragmatism|pragmatist]] [[William James]]. His 1902 [[Gifford lectures]] and book ''[[The Varieties of Religious Experience]]'' examined religion from a psychological-philosophical perspective and is still influential today. His essay ''[[The Will to Believe]]'' defends the rationality of faith.


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[[Max Weber]] studied religion from an economic perspective in ''[[The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]]'' (1904-5), his most famous work. As a major figure in [[sociology]], he has no doubt influenced later sociologists of religion.
[[Emile Durkheim]] also holds continuing influence as one of the fathers of sociology. He explored [[Protestantism|Protestant]] and [[Catholic]] attitudes and doctrines regarding suicide in his work ''Suicide''. In 1912 he published his most memorable work on religion, ''Elementary Forms of the Religious Life''.


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==History of religious studies==
[[Image:Max Muller.jpg|thumb|right|Max Müller]]Interest in the general study of religion dates back to at least [[Hecataeus of Miletus]] ([[ca.]] 550 [[Common Era|BCE]] &ndash; ca. 476 BCE) and [[Herodotus]] (ca. 484 BCE &ndash; 425 BCE). Later, during the [[Middle Ages]], [[Islam]]ic scholars studied [[Zoroastrianism|Persian]], [[Judaism|Jewish]], [[Christianity|Christian]], and [[Hinduism|Indian]] belief and practice. The first history of religion was the ''Treatise on the Religious and Philosophical Sects'' (1127 CE), written by the Muslim scholar [[Muhammad al-Shahrastani]]. [[Peter the Venerable]], also working in the twelfth century, studied Islam and made possible a Latin translation of the [[Qur'an]].
Notwithstanding the long interest in the study of religion, the academic discipline Religious Studies is relatively new. Dr. Chris Partridge notes that the "first professorships were established as recently as the final quarter of the nineteenth century."[http://www.uccf.org.uk/yourcourse/rtsf/docs/academicstudyofreligion.pdf]
In the nineteenth century, the study of religion was done through the eyes of science. [[Max Müller]] was the first Professor of Comparative Religion at [[Oxford University]], a chair created especially for him. In his ''Introduction to the Science of Religion'' (1873) he wrote that it is "the duty of those who have devoted their life to the study of the principal religions of the world in their original documents, and who value and reverence it in whatever form it may present itself, to take possession of this new territory in the name of true science."


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Partridge writes that "by the second half of the twentieth century the study of religion had emerged as a prominent and important field of academic enquiry." He cites the growing distrust of the empiricism of the nineteenth century and the growing interest in non-Christian religions and spirituality coupled with convergence of the work of social scientists and that of scholars of religion as factors involved in the rise of Religious Studies.


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In the 1960s and 1970s, the term "religious studies" became common and interest in the field increased. New departments were founded and influential journals of religious studies were initiated (for example, ''Religious Studies and Religion''). In the forward to ''Approaches to the Study of Religion'', [[Ninian Smart]] wrote that "in the English-speaking world [religious studies] basically dates from the 1960s, although before then there were such fields as 'the comparative study of religion', the 'history of religion', the 'sociology of religion' and so on..."


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Philosophy of religion uses philosophical tools to evaluate religious claims and doctrines. Western philosophy has traditionally been employed by English speaking scholars. (Some other cultures have their own philosophical traditions including [[Hinduism|Indian]], [[Islam|Muslim]], and [[Judaism|Jewish]].) Common issues considered by the (Western) philosophy of religion are the existence of [[God]], belief and rationality, [[religious cosmology|cosmology]], and logical inferences of logical consistency from sacred texts.


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There is some amount of overlap between subcategories of religious studies and the discipline itself. Religious studies seeks to study religious phenomena as a whole, rather than be limited to the approaches of its subcategories.


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===History of religion===
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The [[history of religion]]s is not concerned with theological claims apart from their historical significance. Some topics of this discipline are the [[historicity]] of religious figures, events, and the evolution of doctrinal matters.


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===Sociology of religion===
[[Sociology of religion]] is concerned with the social aspects of religion, both in theory and in practice. Social structure, the relationship between individual practitioner and religious community, and the construction of meaning are a few of the concerns of the sociologist of religions. [[Emile Durkheim]] was the forefather of the sociological study of religion. In 1912 he stated in ''The Elementary Forms of Religious Life'' that religion cannot be separated from society, and vice-versa. [[Durkheim]] saw religion as a form of social solidarity which helped members of the society to bond together and worship the natural or the supernatural. Simply put, for the sociologist of religions the social conditions in the local form of Heaven or Pantheon mirror the local social conditions on earth, also often the former act to justify the latter.<ref>Gustav Mensching ([[Rudolf Otto]]'s primary pupil in Germany), 1968. ''Soziologie der Religion'' ("Sociology of religion"), Germany: Bonn, p. 60ff (in German).</ref>


===Psychology of religion===
The [[psychology of religion]] is concerned with what psychological principles are operative in religious communities and practitioners. [[William James]] was one of the first academics to bridge the gap between the emerging science of [[psychology]] and the study of religion. A few issues of concern to the psychologist of religions are the psychological nature of [[religious conversion]], the making of religious decisions, and the psychological factors in evaluating religious claims.


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===Literary approaches===
There are many approaches to the study of sacred texts. One of these approaches is to interpret the text as a literary object. Metaphor, thematic elements, and the nature and motivations of the characters are of interest in this approach. An example of this approach is ''[[God: A Biography]]'', by [[Jack Miles]].

===Neurological approaches===
Recently there has been an interesting meeting between [[neurology]] and religion, especially [[Buddhism]]. Also of interest has been the temporal lobe, the "God center" of the brain. (Ramachandran, ch. 9)
===Political Science of Religion,or Politology of Religion===

Although not a widely accepted discipline within religious studies, neurological findings in regard to religious experience may very well become of more widespread interest to scholars of religion. Scientific investigators have used a [[SPECT]] scanner to analyze the brain activity of both Christian contemplatives and Buddhist meditators, finding them to be quite similar.<ref>{{cite book
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==Influential figures==
*[[Karl Marx]] [[Theses on Feuerbach]] (1845), and [[Das Kapital]] (1867)<ref name="Pals">Pals, Daniel L. 1996. ''Seven Theories of Religion''. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508725-9</ref>
* [[James Frazer]], ''[[The Golden Bough]]'' (1890)]<ref name="Pals">Pals, Daniel L. 1996. ''Seven Theories of Religion''. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508725-9</ref>
* [[William James]], ''[[The Varieties of Religious Experience]]'' (1902)
* [[Max Weber]], ''[[The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]]'' (1905)
* [[Émile Durkheim]], ''The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life'' (1912)<ref name="Pals" />
* [[Sigmund Freud]], ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' (1913), ''[[The Future of an Illusion]]'' (1927)<ref name="Pals" />
* [[Rudolf Otto]], ''The Idea of the Holy'' (1917)
* [[Carl Jung]], ''[[Psychology and Religion: West and East]]'' (1938)
* [[Joseph Campbell]], ''[[The Hero With a Thousand Faces]]'' (1949), [[The Power of Myth]] (1988)
* [[Alan Watts]], ''Myth and Ritual in Christianity'' (1953) {{Fact|date=February 2008}}
* [[Mircea Eliade]], ''The Sacred and the Profane'' (1957)<ref name="Pals" />
* [[Huston Smith]], ''The Religions of Man'' (1958) (retitled ''The World's Religions'' in 1991 edition) {{Fact|date=February 2008}}
* [[Clifford Geertz]], ''The Religion of Java'' (1960)<ref name="Pals" />
* [[Wilfred Cantwell Smith]], ''The Meaning and End of Religion'' (1962)
* [[E.E. Evans-Pritchard]], ''Theories of Primitive Religion'' (1965)<ref name="Pals" />
* [[Peter L. Berger]], ''The Sacred Canopy'' (1967)
* [[Ninian Smart]], ''The Religious Experience of Mankind'' (1969) (retitled ''The Religious Experience'' in 1991 edition)
* [[Victor Turner]], ''The Ritual Process'' (1969) {{Fact|date=February 2008}}
* [[J.Z. Smith]], ''Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions'' (1978) {{Fact|date=February 2008}}
* [[Talal Asad]], ''Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam'' (1993) {{Fact|date=February 2008}}

==Methodologies==
A number of methodologies are used in Religious Studies. Methodologies are [[hermeneutic]]s, or interpretive models, that provide a structure for the analysis of religious phenomena.

===Phenomenology===
[[Phenomenology (philosophy)|Phenomenology]] is "arguably the most influential approach to the study of religion in the twentieth century." (Partridge) The term was first used by [[Pierre Daniel Chantepie de la Saussaye]] in his work ''Lehrbuch der Religiongeschichte'' (1887). Chantepie's phenomenology catalogued observable characteristics of religion much like a zoologist would categorize animals or an entomologist would categorize insects.

In part due to [[Edmund Husserl|Husserl's]] influence, "phenomenology" came to "refer to a method which is more complex and claims rather more for itself than did Chantepie’s mere cataloguing of facts." (Partridge) Husserl argued that the foundation of knowledge is [[consciousness]]. He recognized "how easy it is for prior beliefs and interpretations to unconsciously influence one’s thinking, Husserl’s phenomenological method sought to shelve all these presuppositions and interpretations." (Partridge) Husserl introduced the term "eidetic vision" to describe the ability to observe without "prior beliefs and interpretations" influencing understanding and perception.

His other main conceptual contribution is the idea of the "epoch": setting aside metaphysical questions and observing phenomena in and of themselves. Husserl "sought to place philosophy on a descriptive and scientific basis." (Partridge)

Partridge examines the most systematic and thorough example of phenomenology, [[Gerardus van der Leeuw]]’s ''Religion in Essence and Manifestation'' (1933):

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*Firstly, argues van der Leeuw, the student of religion needs to classify the religious phenomena into distinct categories: e.g. sacrifice, sacrament, sacred space, sacred time, sacred word, festivals, and myth.
*Secondly, scholars then need to interpolate the phenomena into the their own lives. That is to say, they need to empathetically (Einfuhlung) try and understand the religion from within....The life examined by the religious studies scholar, insists van der Leeuw, needs to "acquire its place in the life of the student himself who should understand it out of his inner self."
*Thirdly, van der Leeuw stresses perhaps the fundamental phenomenological principle, namely epoch, the suspension of value-judgements and the adoption of a neutral stance.
*Fourthly, scholars needs to clarify any apparent structural relationships and make sense of the information. In so doing, they move towards a holistic understanding of how the various aspects of a religion relate and function together.
*Fifthly, this leads naturally to a stage at which "all these activities, undertaken together and simultaneously, constitute genuine understanding [Verstehen]: the chaotic and obstinate 'reality' thus becomes a manifestation, a revelation" (eidetic vision).
*Sixthly, having thus attained this general grasp, there is a continual need to make sure that it tallies with the up-to-date research of other disciplines, such as archaeology, history, philology etc. For van der Leeuw, as for other phenomenologists, the continual checking of one’s results is crucial to the maintenance of scholarly objectivity. In order to avoid degeneration into fantasy, phenomenology must always feed on facts.
*Finally, having gone through the above six stages, the phenomenologist should be as close as anyone can be to an understanding of the 'meaning' of the religious phenomena studied and be in a position to relate his understanding to others.
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Most phenomenologists are aware of the fact that understanding is asymptotic and there will never be complete and absolute understanding. By setting aside metaphysical issues (such as a Christian phenomenologist would do with monotheism/polytheism while studying Hinduism), phenomenologists keep religious studies separate from theology and (hopefully) decrease their bias and come away with a more accurate picture.

Seven generally agreed upon features of phenomenology are as follows:
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*Phenomenologists tend to oppose the acceptance of unobservable matters and grand systems erected in speculative thinking;

*Phenomenologists tend to oppose naturalism (also called objectivism and positivism), which is the worldview growing from modern natural science and technology that has been spreading from Northern Europe since the Renaissance;

*Positively speaking, phenomenologists tend to justify cognition (and some also evaluation and action) with reference to what Edmund Husserl called Evidenz, which is awareness of a matter itself as disclosed in the most clear, distinct, and adequate way for something of its kind;

*Phenomenologists tend to believe that not only objects in the natural and cultural worlds, but also ideal objects, such as numbers, and even conscious life itself can be made evident and thus known;

*Phenomenologists tend to hold that inquiry ought to focus upon what might be called "encountering" as it is directed at objects and, correlatively, upon "objects as they are encountered" (this terminology is not widely shared, but the emphasis on a dual problematics and the reflective approach it requires is);

*Phenomenologists tend to recognize the role of description in universal, a priori, or "eidetic" terms as prior to explanation by means of causes, purposes, or grounds; and

*Phenomenologists tend to debate whether or not what Husserl calls the transcendental phenomenological epochê and reduction is useful or even possible.
[http://www.phenomenologycenter.org/phenom.htm source]
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For the more general philosophical movement of phenomenology, see http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/.

===Functionalism===

[[Functionalism]], in regard to religious studies, is the analysis of religions and their various communities of adherents using the functions of particular religious phenomena to interpret the structure of religious communities and their beliefs. A major criticism of functionalism is that it lends itself to [[teleology|teleological]] explanations. An example of a functionalist approach is understanding the dietary restrictions contained in the [[Pentateuch]] as having the function of promoting health or providing social identity (''i.e.'' a sense of belonging though common practice).

==See also==
*[[List of religious scholars]]
*[[Theology]]
*[[:Category:Religious studies books]]
*[[:Category:Religious behaviour and experience]]
*[[Sacred-profane dichotomy]]
*[[Theories of religion]]
*[[International Association for the Scientific Study of Religion]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Miles, Jack. ''God: A Biography''. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1995 ISBN 0-679-41833-4. Vintage books ed. 1996 ISBN 0-679-74368-5
* Ramachandran, V.S. ''Phantoms in the Brain''.
* Russell, Jeffrey Burton. ''A History of Medieval Christianity: Prophecy and Order''.
* Wilber, Ken, ''Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists''. Boston: New Science Library, 1984, ISBN 0-394-72338-4
*Roberts, T. B. (editor) (2001). ''Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion.'' San Francosco: Council on Spiritual Practices.
*Roberts, T. B., and Hruby, P. J. (1995–2002). Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments An Entheogen Chrestomathy. Online archive. [http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy]
*Roberts, T. B. "Chemical Input—Religious Output: Entheogens." Chapter 10 in ''Where God and Science Meet: Vol. 3: The Psychology of Religious Experience'' Robert McNamara (editor)(2006). Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood.

==External links==
*[http://rra.hartsem.edu/ The Religious Research Association]
*[http://www.regent.edu/acad/undergrad/academics/degrees/religiousstudies.cfm Religious Studies Degree]
*[http://www.sssrweb.org/ The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)]
*[http://www.americanreligion.org/ The Institute for the Study of American Religion]
*[http://www.warwick.ac.uk/sisr/English.htm The International Society for the Sociology of Religion]

===Academic societies===
*[http://www.csu.edu.au/research/apra/ APRA - The Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association]
*[http://www.iacsr.com IACSR - International Association for the Scientific Study of Religion]
*[http://www.aarweb.org/ AAR- American Academy of Religion].
*[http://www.easr.de/ EASR- European Association for the Study of Religions].
*[http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/project/57/religion_in_international_affairs.html Initiative on Religion in International Affairs] at Harvard.
*[http://www.iahr.dk/ IAHR-International Association for the History of Religion].
*[http://www.cssr.org/ The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion].
*[http://www.naasr.com/ North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR)].
*[http://www.sssrweb.org/ Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)].
*[http://www.iacsr.com International Association for the Scientific Study of Religion]

===Online Works and Sources===
*[http://www.as.ua.edu/rel/studyingreligion.html Studying Religion: An Introduction]
*[http://www.as.ua.edu/rel/whystudyreligion.html What is the Academic Study of Religion? A Student's Perspective].
*[http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/functionalism.htm Functionalism]
*Partridge, Chris. ''[http://www.uccf.org.uk/yourcourse/rtsf/docs/academicstudyofreligion.pdf The Academic Study of Religion]''

===Religious Studies as an academic discipline===
*[http://www.rsrevision.com Schemes of work for QCA KS3 syllabus, GCSE and A level in the United Kingdom]
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