More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion
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This book challenges the traditional idea that religions can be understood primarily as texts to be interpreted, decoded, or translated. In More Than Belief, Manuel A. V squez argues for a new way of studying religions, one that sees them as dynamic material and historical expressions of the practices of embodied individuals who are embedded in social fields and ecological networks. He sketches the outlines of this approach through a focus on body, practices, and space. In order to highlight the centrality of these dimensions of religious experience and performance, V squez recovers materialist currents within religious studies that have been consistently ignored or denigrated. Drawing on state-of-the-art work in fields as diverse as anthropology, sociology, philosophy, critical theory, environmental studies, cognitive psychology, and the neurosciences, V squez offers a groundbreaking new way of looking at religion.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195188543
ISBN13:9780195188547
Release Date:November 2010
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:392 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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