The Blackwell Companion To The Study Of Religion

Robert A. Segal, editor

Malden, Mass., and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 471 pages. ISBN 0-631-23216-8. $100. Hardback only.

Consists of twenty-five essays, of 7000 to 10,000 words each, on the main approaches to the study of religion: anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, theology, and literature. Also covers a range of topical issues, such as the body, fundamentalism, heaven and hell, magic, new religious movements, pilgrimage, ritual, and.secularization. Each essay has a bibliographical guide to the main literature of each subject.