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Religion in World History

Individuals and groups have long found identity and meaning through religion

and its collective expression. In Religion in World History , John C. Super and

Briane K. Turley examine the value of religion for interpreting the human

experience in the past and present. This study explores those elements of

religion that best connect it with cultural and political dynamics that have

inﬂuenced history.

Working within this general framework, Super and Turley bring out three

unifying themes:

• the relationship between formal and informal religious beliefs, how these

change through time, and how they are reﬂected in different cultures

• the relationship between church and state, from theocracies to the

repression of religion

• the ongoing search for spiritual certainty, and the consequent splintering

of core religious beliefs and the development of new ones.

The book’s unique approach helps the reader grasp the many and complex ways

that religion acts upon and reacts to broader global processes.

John C. Super is a Professor of History at West Virginia University, and has

written widely on the history of the Americas. Briane K. Turley is Research

Assistant Professor of Geography and History at West Virginia University, and

has written on American religious history. Both have taught as Fulbright

professors, and conducted research on religion in many different countries.

Themes in World History

Series editor: Peter N. Stearns

The Themes in World History series offers focused treatment of a range of human

experiences and institutions in the world history context. The purpose is to

provide serious, if brief, discussions of important topics as additions to textbook

coverage and document collections. The treatments will allow students to

probe particular facets of the human story in greater depth than textbook

coverage allows, and to gain a fuller sense of historians’ analytical methods and

debates in the process. Each topic is handled over time – allowing discussions

of changes and continuities. Each topic is assessed in terms of a range of

different societies and religions – allowing comparisons of relevant similarities

and differences. Each book in the series helps readers deal with world history

in action, evaluating global contexts as they work through some of the key

components of human society and human life.

Gender in World History

Peter N. Stearns

Revolutions in World History

Michael D. Richards

Consumerism in World

History

Peter N. Stearns

Migration in World History

Patrick Manning

Sports in World History

David G. McComb

Warfare in World History

Michael S. Neiberg

The United States in World

History

Edward J. Davies II

Disease and Medicine

in World History

Sheldon Watts

Food in World History

Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Western Civilization

in World History

Peter N. Stearns

Alcohol in World History

Gina Hames

The Indian Ocean

in World History

Milo Kearney

Childhood in World History

Peter N. Stearns

Asian Democracy

in World History

Alan T. Wood

Religion in World History

The persistence of imperial communion

John C. Super and

Briane K. Turley

Super - Turley - Religion in World History.pdf

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