Sentences with phrase «religions as an academic discipline»

The twentieth century has seen considerable growth in the study of religions as an academic discipline and much discussion about what is involved in this study.

the comparative study of religion as an academic discipline, his own endeavors marking the past epoch, those of his immediate successors (C. P. Tiele) the second, the «religionsgeschichtliche Schule» the third.

In the graduate institutions questions are raised as to the legitimacy of the history of religions as an academic discipline, and also the relations of the research method to other disciplines.

Not a few of them go even so far as to deny the integrity of Religionswissenschaft or the history of religions as an academic discipline.

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Mission Study or Missiology (as we interchangeably use the two terms) as an academic discipline is closely related to the study of (other) living religions, and the discipline itself by definition is incomplete without its biblical - theological, historical, and practical - ethical dimensions and foundations.

The study of religions which as an academic discipline developed quite quickly during the twentieth century stressed the need for neutrality and impartiality.

Historically, it was the Western scholars who discovered Eastern religions as the subject matters of academic discipline.

In the early 1900s the Clinical Pastoral Education movement was founded, and led to the integration of religion and psychology for therapeutic purposes as an academic discipline.