Gavin Flood

Broschiertes Buch

The Importance of Religion

Meaning and Action in Our Strange World

Beschreibung

The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices

Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views religion is enduring and vividly engages with the mystery of the world
Offers striking arguments about the relationship of religion to science, art and politics
Engagingly written by a highly respected scholar of religion with an international reputation

Autor

Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford where he is also the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is the author of Introduction to Hinduism (1996) and The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, Tradition (2006); and editor of the Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189712
• ISBN-10: 1405189711
• Artikelnr.: 33927107

Rezensionen

"The book has a creativity, comprehensivness, and energy not often found in contemporary Religious Studies. It has the hallmarks of a milestone statement in theorizing about the phenomenology of religion." -- William E. Paden, The University of Vermont

"In this erudite work, Gavin Flood develops a powerful new understanding of religion as springing from the nature of the human condition itself. It will challenge and provoke, and will surely renew the field." -- Oliver Davies, King's College London

"Flood presents a thesis about 'religion' that is provocative, irenic, learned and wide ranging. His interdisciplinary intervention is an elegant challenge to those who think religion is dead or dying. It is a sensitive exploration of religion as the textual and ritual generator of meaning." -- Gavin D'Costa, University of Bristol

"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 January 2013)