Author: Christopher Partridge
Title of the journal: Introduction to world religion
Url or web address: http://www.fortresspress.com/partridge
Main Idea :
A leading textbook for world religion, this new edition is designed to help students in their study and research of the world’s religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach and its respected board of consulting editors, this text addresses ways to study religion, provides broad coverage of diverse religions, and offers an arresting layout with rich illustrations. The second edition has new and extended primary source readings, a stronger section on the religions of South Asia, additional maps, a new full-color, student-friendly format, and more. It can be purchased individually or as part of a Course Pack which includes the Study Companion. Authoritative content, comprehensive scope, arresting four-color illustration, and innovative learning aids, now in multiple formats for complete versatility.
Evidence that support the main idea:
Introduction to World Religions provides an overview of the key religions of the world and the way they have come to be studied and understood today. The course is designed to give you the tools to embark on a study of world religions through contemporary cases studies. It challenges you to look at both the insider’ and outsider’s perspectives and why even the title world religions’ might be controversial. It looks at the way religions adapt and change from their historical roots into the dynamic and fascinating forms we see today and how they interact with each other and the modern, secular world. It takes into account the views of leading academics and practitioners in the field who themselves had attempted to provide an overview that helps to make sense of diverse sets of beliefs and practices moldings the lives of millions of people in the world.
This course aims to help to develop a clearer framework for understanding different approaches to the study of religion and to consider in particular what the term world religion might mean. It does not assume prior knowledge of religion, the study of religion or world religions. It will allow examination of what each religion teaches as well as how each religion developed historically and functions in the world today. It does not aim to provide an in-depth study of each religion, but rather to help to make the first steps in such a study. Nor does it aim to make judgement about the validity or otherwise of truth statements made by religions, but rather to allow the religions to speak for themselves and approach their study with an open mind and an awareness that no perspective will be unbiased. In particular it will examine how religions can be studied from within (the insider perspective) as well from outside it (the outsider perspective) and how the interplay between these two is often what is involved in the study of religion.
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