LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

The article concerns a topical issue both in theoretical and in worldview and cultural sense. It concerns one of the foundations of the political religion of imperial Russia, connected with the current Russian-Ukrainian war as a war against the “Collective West”. The author of the article uses the concept of “political religion” developed in world theoretical thought to describe and study the practice of creating So…

Reference · Wikidata

objective study of religion

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as religion and its definition is highly contested. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing empirical, historically based, and cross-cultural perspectives.

Book · DOAB

This book examines narratives of individual religious transformation in Western European literature and culture. Religious individuals, themes, experiences and communities are widely represented in diverse literature and culture, including literary texts and visual arts and media. Taking the subject of religious transformation as an angle from which to study constructions of religion, gender and race, this book reve…

Image · DPLA

Issue 64.1 of the Review for Religious, 2005.