The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xiv

• Introduction by Robert A. Orsi
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• pp. 1-14

Part one - Religion and religious studies: the irony of inheritance

• 1 - On sympathy, suspicion, and studying religion: historical reflections on a doubled inheritance by Leigh E. Schmidt
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• pp. 15-35

• 2 - Thinking about religion, belief, and politics by Talal Asad
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• pp. 36-57

• 3 - Special things as building blocks of religions by Ann Taves
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• pp. 58-83

• 4 - The problem of the holy by Robert A. Orsi
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• pp. 84-106

Part two - Major theoretical problems

• 5 - Social order or social chaos by Michael J. Puett
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• pp. 107-129

• 6 - Tradition: the power of constraint by Michael L. Satlow
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• pp. 130-150

• 7 - The text and the world by Anne M. Blackburn
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• pp. 151-167

• 8 - On the role of normativity in religious studies by Thomas A. Lewis
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• pp. 168-185

• 9 - Translation by Martin Kavka
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• pp. 186-208

• 10 - Material religion by Matthew Engelke
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• pp. 209-229

• 11 - Theology and the study of religion: a relationship by Christine Helmer
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• pp. 230-254

Part three - Methodological variations

• 12 - Buddhism and violence by Bernard Faure
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• pp. 255-272

• 13 - Practicing religions by Courtney Bender
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• pp. 273-295

• 14 - The look of the sacred by David Morgan
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• pp. 296-318

• 15 - Reforming culture: law and religion today by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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• pp. 319-337

• 16 - Sexing religion by R. Marie Griffith
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• pp. 338-359

• 17 - Constituting ethical subjectivities by Leela Prasad
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• pp. 360-379

• 18 - Neo-Pentecostalism and globalization by Marla F. Frederick
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• pp. 380-402

• 19 - Religious criticism, secular critique, and the “critical study of religion”: lessons from the study of Islam by Noah Salomon and Jeremy F. Walton
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• pp. 403-420

• Index
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• pp. 421-428