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Description: Visions of Religion : Experience, Meaning, and Power, Hardcover by Bush, Stephen S., ISBN 0199387400, ISBN-13 9780199387403, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US 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 involves experiences, meanings, and power, so students of religion should attend to all three. Furthermore, theorists of religion should have an account that carefully conceptualizes all three aspects, without regarding any
of them as more basic than the others.

Visions of Religion provides just such an account. Stephen S. Bush examines influential proponents of the three visions, arguing that each approach offers substantial and lasting contributions to the study of religion, although each requires revision.

Bush rehabilitates the concepts of experience and meaning, two categories that are much maligned these days. In doing so, he shows the extent to which these categories are implicated in matters of social power. As for power, th argues that the analysis of power requires attention to meaning
and experience.

Visions of Religion accomplishes all this by articulating a social practical theory of religion that can account for all three aspects, even as it incorporates them into a single theoretical framework.

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Book Title: Visions of Religion : Experience, Meaning, and Power

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Visions of Religion : Experience, Meaning, and Power

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2014

Subject: General, Philosophy, Sociology of Religion

Item Height: 0.9 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 17.3 Oz

Subject Area: Religion, Social Science

Item Length: 6.5 in

Author: Stephen S. Bush

Item Width: 9.6 in

Series: Aar Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Ser.

Format: Hardcover

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