Worldview Religious Studies (Routledge Focus on Religion)

This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding worldviews in religious studies.

It provides a framework for re-thinking human endeavors to identify, cope, and even transcend life's flaws and perils through the study of religion, spirituality, secularism, and other mixed attitudes of life.

The book introduces and defines worldviews more generally before establishing a specific framework for religious studies.

It explores the drive for meaning-making through ritual-symbolic activities, ideas of 'play', and the power of emotions to transform simple ideas into values and beliefs that frame identity and signpost destiny.

The book also discusses identity and its sacralization alongside gift/reciprocity theory in their relation to ideas of merit, karma, and salvation in Eastern and Western traditions.

This is a must-read for students and teachers of Religious Studies, Theology, and Ethics who want to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of worldviews and how they shape our understanding of the world around us.