TY - BOOK AU - Taylor,Mark C. TI - Critical terms for religious studies SN - 0226791564 AV - BL31 .C75 1998 U1 - ARCH YNDC 210.14 T238C 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Religion KW - Terminology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Belief; Donald S. Lopez, Jr. --; Body; William R. LaFleur --; Conflict; Bruce Lincoln --; Culture; Tomoko Masuzawa --; Experience; Robert H. Sharf --; Gender; Daniel Boyarin --; God; Francis Schüssler Fiorenza and Gordon D. Kaufman --; Image; Margaret R. Miles --; Liberation; Kenneth Surin --; Modernity; Gustavo Benavides --; Performance; Catherine Bell --; Person; Charles E. Winquist --; Rationality; Paul Stoller --; Relic; Gregory Schopen --; Religion, religions, religious; Jonathan Z. Smith --; Sacrifice; Jill Robbins --; Territory; Sam Gill --; Time; Anthony F. Aveni --; Transformation; Bruce B. Lawrence --; Transgression; Michael Taussig --; Value; Edith Wyschogrod --; Writing; David Tracy N2 - Critical Terms for Religious Studies provides vocabulary with which religious diversity can be effectively described and responsibly discussed. Each essay provides a concise history of a critical term, explores the issues it raises, and puts the term to use in an analysis of a religious work, practice, or event. Moving across Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Native American and Mayan religions, contributors explore terms ranging from experience, territory, and image, to God, sacrifice, and transgression ER -