How To Study The Sacred

Why do we find historians psychologists sociologists anthropologists even neurologists so interested in religion in the first place? Perhaps it is because religion is less about God than it is about human beings--representing our psycho-social-emotional-biological state our cultural values and our overall history. The purpose of this book is to introduce the student to the main questions in religious studies and to survey some of the dominant theories drawing from a variety of disciplines. In sum it is a short introduction to the field of religious studies.