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James A. Bishop (PhD candidate, Department for the Study of Religions, University of Cape Town)

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Category: Articles Religious Studies

November 3, 2019December 7, 2022 James Bishop

Earliest Religion and Origin: Theories and Evidence

October 11, 2019October 13, 2021 James Bishop

What Are Post-Colonial Theories of Religion?

August 26, 2019April 8, 2020 James Bishop

What are New Religious Movements and Modern Religions?

August 7, 2019August 28, 2020 James Bishop

Why Study Religion?

June 10, 2019August 28, 2020 James Bishop

What is the Phenomenology of Religion?

May 21, 2019August 29, 2020 James Bishop

What’s Postmodernism in the Scientific Study of Religion?

May 16, 2019August 28, 2020 James Bishop

The Search for the Primordium (Origin) of Religion

May 13, 2019January 7, 2020 James Bishop

What is the Pursuit for Natural Religion?

May 4, 2019December 9, 2021 James Bishop

Friedrich Max Müller – The Father of the Scientific Study of Religion

April 23, 2019December 10, 2021 James Bishop

Contrasting Walter Capps’s and David Chidester’s Concept of the Study of Religion

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