Understanding Religion (Study in Theology)

by EricJ.Sharpe (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $31.94

  Clears the ground for students who are setting out to understand, rather than just to practice, religion. It discusses, among other things, the relationship between commitment to a particular tradition and the quest for intellectual understanding of religion in the round, holiness as an identifying aspect of religion, functional modes of religion, and finally some questions connected with thesecularization process.Assuming throughout that theology and religious studies ought not to be seen as competing approaches, but as sources for complementary insights, it offers the student a fundamental introduction to an important area of inquiry.