TY - BOOK AU - Parsons,William Barclay ED - Gale Group. TI - Religion: social religion T2 - Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks SN - 9780028662909 AV - BL48 PY - 2016///] CY - Farmington Hills, Mich. PB - Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning KW - Religion KW - Religion and the social sciences KW - Religion and sociology KW - Psychology and religion KW - Anthropology of religion KW - Historiography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; chapter 1. The psychology of religion: an overview / William B. Parsons -- chapter 2. The psychology of religion: originative figures / David M. Wulff -- chapter 3. The psychology of religion: historical and contemporary trends / Robert C. Fuller -- chapter 4. Selected topic: spirits in the mind, gods in the brain: contemporary psychologies of religious experience / Marsha Aileen Hewitt -- chapter 5. Criticisms, debates, futures: the psychology of religion and its discontents / Jacob A. Belzen -- chapter 6. The sociology of religion: an overview / Michael O. Emerson -- chapter 7. The sociology of religion: originative figures / Michael P. Carroll -- chapter 8. The sociology of religion: historical and contemporary trends / Ernest Wallwork -- chapter 9. Selected topic: the 'spiritual but not religious' movement / Linda Mercadante -- chapter 10. Criticisms, debates, futures: the sociology of religion or social theory / Russell T. McCutcheon -- chapter 11. The anthropology of religion: an overview / James D. Faubion -- chapter 12. The anthropology of religion: originative figures / Robert A. Segal -- chapter 13. The anthropology of religion: originative figures / Robert A. Segal -- chapter 14. Selected topic: witchcraft, ritual, and gender / Elias Kifon Bongmba -- chapter 15. Criticisms, debates, futures: the anthropology of religion in hybrid human and nonhuman worlds / Paul Christopher Johnson -- chapter 16. The historical method and the study of religion / Bryan S. Rennie -- chapter 17. The historical method and the Hebrew Bible / Matthias Henze -- chapter 18. The historical method and the New Testament / Vernon K. Robbons -- chapter 19. Selected topic: the historical method and feminist hermeneutics / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -- chapter 20. Criticisms, debates, futures: the historical method and cognitive historicism / April D. DeConick. N2 - This book introduces the study of religion through the lens of social science, covering psychology of religion, sociology of religion, anthropology of religion, and the historical method. UR - http://link.galegroup.com/apps/pub/8GTB/GVRL?sid=gale_marc&u=bilk_itc ER -