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

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Category: Study of Religions

February 8, 2020November 5, 2023 James Bishop

Clifford Geertz – Religion as a “System of Symbols”

January 30, 2020March 19, 2023 James Bishop

Auguste Comte: Religion and the Evolution of Human Consciousness

January 25, 2020October 13, 2021 James Bishop

Sociologist Robert Bellah on American ‘Civil Religion’

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 James Bishop

What is the Difference Between Religious Education, Theology, and Religion Studies?

January 23, 2020January 24, 2023 James Bishop

David Chidester’s Post-Colonial Theory of Religion

January 22, 2020December 21, 2020 James Bishop

How Do the Religious Read Their Texts? The Three Borderlands of Religious Reading

January 17, 2020June 25, 2021 James Bishop

William Robertson Smith – “Primitive” Religion and Higher Biblical Criticism

January 16, 2020March 8, 2023 James Bishop

What is Religion?: Problems in Definition

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 James Bishop

What is the Black Study of Religion?

January 11, 2020April 30, 2021 James Bishop

Ninian Smart’s Seven Dimensions of Religion and Why it is Helpful

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