The Bloomsbury Reader in Cultural Approaches to the Study of Religion

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This is the first reader to gather primary sources from influential theorists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in one place, presenting the wide-ranging and nuanced theoretical debates occurring in the field of religious studies. Each chapter focuses on a major theorist and contains:¿ an introduction contextualizing their key ideas¿ one or two selections representative of the theorist¿s innovative methodological approach(es)¿ discussion questions to extend and deepen reader engagement Divided in three sections, the first part includes foundational comparative debates:¿ Mary Douglas¿s articulation of purity and impurity¿ Phyllis Trible¿s methods of reading sacred texts¿ Wendy Doniger¿s comparative mythology ¿ Catherine Bell¿s reimagining of religious and secular ritualThe second part focuses on methodological particularity: ¿ Alice Walker''s use of narrative ¿ Charles Long¿s critique of Eurocentricism¿ Caroline Walker Bynum¿s emphasis on gender and materialityThe third section