History and the Study of Religion

Acknowledgments

1. History and the Study of Religion

Part 1: Religion as a Social Kind
2: Realism and Anti-Realism About Religion
3. Theorizing Social Kinds
4. Theorizing Religion as a Social Kind

Part 2: Religion and Social Theory
5. Social Theory: The Search for the Magic Glue and the Status of Religion
6. Thinking the Ontology of Religion: Toward a Better Social Ontology

Part 3: Christian Formation in the Ancient Mediterranean as a Test Case
7. Early Christianity as Evidence for Socially Superior Religion
8. The Formation of Christianity: Freelance Literate Experts, Literate Experts with Political-Institutional Power, and Non-Expert Insiders
9. Explaining the Evidence of Ancient Christian Formation

10. Concluding Arguments: Does Kinds Theory Aid Social Ontological Analysis?

Index

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• As religiões antigas e mitologias
• História da religião
• Cristianismo
• História social e cultural
• Antropologia social e cultural
• Epistemologia e teoria do conhecimento: Filosofia
• Estudos bíblicos e exegese