Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion ― Adjunct Proceedings of the Xviith Congress of the International Associationor the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995

This volume is the adjunct proceedings on methodology from the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, held in Mexico City in 1995. Taken together, the essays present a thorough and coherent perspective on studying religion as an item of human culture.

Armin W. Geertz is Professor of the History of Religions at the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and is the General Secretary of the International Association for the History of Religions. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Numen and Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. He is the author of numerous books and articles on indigenous religions, methodology in the study of religion, contemporary religiosity and the religion and mythology of the Hopi Indians in Arizona, where he has done fieldwork intermittently since 1978. His books include: Hopi Indian Altar Iconography (Brill, 1987), Children of Cottonwood. Piety and Ceremonialism in Hopi Indian Puppetry (Lincoln & University of Nebraska Press, 1987), Religion, Tradition, and Renewal(University of Aarhus Press, 1991), and The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi Indian Religion (University of California Press, 1992, 1994).Russell T. McCutcheon is Associate Professor of Modern Religious Thought at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. He is the author of Manufacturing Religion (Oxford University Press, 1997), Critics Not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion (State University of New York Press), and is the co-editor of both the Guide to the Study of Religion (Cassell, 2000) and Brill’s journal Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.