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books:

Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion
William E. Paden

Beacon Press, 1994

"One of the best thought out and written introductions to the study of religion I have seen thus far. It not only explains but invites discussion and comment." -Charles H. Long, University of California, Santa Barbara

Interpreting the Sacred: Ways of Viewing Religion

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William E. Paden

Beacon Press, 2003

A Perspective on Perspectives
William Paden presents, in Interpreting the Sacred, an enlightening overview of the ways in which scholarly disciplines have made sense of religious belief and practice. After elaborating in the initial chapters the notion of perspective as a way of creating and ordering experience, the author focuses particularly on the perspectives offered by sociology, psychology, theology, and the ...