Visions of Religion: Experience, Meaning, and Power

by Stephen S. Bush

Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities

Three understandings of the nature of religion--religion as experience, symbolic meaning, and power--have dominated scholarly discussions, in succession, for the past hundred years. Proponents of each of these three approaches have tended to downplay, ignore, or actively criticize the others.

But why should the three approaches be at odds? Religion as it is practiced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199387400
• ISBN13: 9780199387403
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"