This book, a guide to studying religion, has two parts. The first or historical part traces the rise of the academic study of religion from the early nineteenth

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"Introduces twelve of the most influential theories of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the study of religion in one volume"--

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Over the course of his career, Luther H. Martin has primarily produced articles rather than monographs. This approach to publication has given him the opportuni