The Ideology of Religious Studies.

Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Religious Studies as an Ideology -- 1 Religion, Religions, and World Religions: Religious Studies-A Critique -- 2 Comparative Religion: The Founding Fathers and the Theological Legacy -- 3 Ninian Smart and the Phenomenology of Religion -- 4 Religion, Family Resemblances, and the Use Context -- 5 Religions, Quasi Religions, and Secular Ideologies -- Part II: Religion and India -- 6 Buddhism in India: Ritual, Politics, and Soteriology -- 7 Hinduism -- Part III: Religion and Japan -- 8 Problems of the Category 'Religion' in Japan -- 9 Consrtucting a Collective Identity -- 10 Bowing to the Taxman -- Part IV: Problems With the Category 'Culture' -- 11 Religious Studies, Cultural Studies, and Cultural Anthropology -- 12 The Critique of 'Culture' in Cultural Anthropology -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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