William E Paden: 2 books
New Patterns for Comparative Religion
Passages to an Evolutionary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time. These frames, whether focused on psychology or politics, gender or colonialism, bring out perspectives for understanding religious behavior. Today one of our common...
Religious Worlds
The Comparative Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
From Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions.