Methods for the Study of Religious Change: From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies

This is a highly imaginiative contribution to the study of worldviews.- Grace Davie, University of Exeter The world of religious experience is changing much faster than the discipline which claims to study it. Religious studies still uses Christianity as its measure, still frames the world through the model of five world religions, still largely avoids analysis of key issues around power, poverty, violence, pollution, science, and social conflict, and still looks to highlight differences ra...