Hood’s approach has no flaws from the standpoint of an observing scientist; but, on the personal level, one may have trouble distinguishing between the cause and the consequence. It’s the Fruits, not the Roots: A Response to Ralph Hood By … Continue reading
Belief [...] can be used as a concept to bridge [...] frameworks, to allow scholars to understand and appreciate the framework within which religious actors presume to act without using it themselves (or necessarily having to adopt it). A Brief … Continue reading
As we find new and innovative ways to teach students, we as instructors are charged (sometimes without formal or proper orientation) to adopt new methods of instruction. Reflections on Teaching Religious Studies Online By Christopher F. Silver, University of Tennessee at … Continue reading
As Sullivan and other religious studies scholars complicate terms like religion and secularism, reducing these terms to near incoherence, and insist on the constant intermingling of the sacred and the secular, they leave jurists and legislators in a predicament with … Continue reading
On a more fundamental level, this raises the question whether ‘spiritual’ refers to a quality that may come in addition to an identification as religious, or whether the two refer to different groups and types of persons. Some Questions … Continue reading
These kinds of situations can create a confluence of undisclosed interest, a phenomenon that can call into question even further the accuracy of media investigation and reporting. Bias, Expectations, and the Role of the Media in Reporting on Religion By … Continue reading
The listener is left with a general overview of the use of the Myers Briggs as a measure of predictive and descriptive social trends among specific samples within a variety of religious groups. Questioning the Utility of Myers-Briggs, By Negeen … Continue reading
…scholars should be more conscious of the ways in which some experiences are being distinguished (often implicitly), by either the person having the experience, the community in which the experience is happening, or the scholar studying it. Attention should be … Continue reading
…the study of religion, spirituality, and faith [...] cannot be explored through simply descriptive statistics or only quantitative models but rather complex qualitative and empirical methods within sophisticated designs. A New Approach to Faith Development Theory By John Rymon Bailey, … Continue reading
Religion is not, in Beyer’s model, something that attempts to respond to this process. Rather it is an integral aspect of globalization. Post-Westphalianism Versus Homogenization Theories of Globalization and Religion By Jillian Scott. Published by the Religious Studies Project, on … Continue reading