The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World - eBook

Name: The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World - eBook
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ISBN: 9781444399042

By: Gavin Flood

Wiley-Blackwell / 2011 / ePub

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Title: The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World - eBook
By: Gavin Flood
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781444399042
ISBN-13: 9781444399042
Stock No: WW27341EB

Publisher's Description

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The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices

Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views religion is enduring and vividly engages with the mystery of the world
Offers striking arguments about the relationship of religion to science, art and politics
Engagingly written by a highly respected scholar of religion with an international reputation

Author Bio

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Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford where he is also the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is the author of Introduction to Hinduism (1996) and The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, Tradition (2006); and editor of the Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).

Editorial Reviews

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"Finally, it should be pointed out that the book is well presented, with a wealth of interesting primary sources and secondary literature discussed. . . At any rate, the book should contribute to the ongoing debate between religionists and reductionists within our field." (Numen, 1 May 2015)

"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 January 2013)