ASR and RE

As a university discipline, the academic study of religions (ASR) has produced a critical approach to the study of religion which is (or ought be), I think, of fundamental importance for a modern secular and enlightened democratic state. However, the "study-of-religions" approach has perco...

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Main Author: Jensen, Tim 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2016
In: Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Pages: 59-83
Further subjects:B small c confessional RE
B Re
B Religious Education
B study-of-religions RE
B academic study of religions
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