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Preface 7
Concluding Statement. 9
List of the Participants of the Conference in Jabłonna, 5-8 September 1989 12
Islamic mysticism in the context of social studies 14
Notes 20
Islam in the context of political science 22
Politics in classical Islam 22
Politics in modern Islam 23
Political science and religion 24
Notes 29
The study of indigenous religions in the history of religions 32
The History of Religions and the Social Sciences 32
Ethnohermeneutics 34
The History of Religions as a Cultural Phenomenon 38
The Problem of the Other 40
Conclusion 43
Notes 44
Development in the study of religion in Czechoslovakia 46
Notes 54
History of religions without an object? -on the relations between the history of religions and current issues in anthropology 59
The Revolution in Anthropology 60
Comparing comparisons 62
Chasing anthropology 64
Towards Convergence? 66
Religion as an object 67
Notes 69
Die Funktion der Religionswissenschaft in der Soziologie von Max Weber 72
Religionswissenschaftler und Soziologen 72
Webers Interesse an der frühen Religionswissenschaft 74
Ethisierung von Religion und Entzauberung 75
Erlösungsreligiosität und rationale Lebensführung 76
Ökonomische Klassen, politische Mentalitäten und Lebensführung 77
Doppelstruktur religiöser Kommunikation 78
Notes 80
The role of religious studies in understanding the ethnic experience 86
Leeds and Bradford 86
Studies of ethnicity and religion in Britain 88
The task of studying the religions of ethnic minorities 90
Some theoretical issues concerning the study of the religions of ethnic minorities 91
Notes 96
The crisis in the scientific study of religion and its resolution 98
Notes 102
The social aspect in religious phenomenon 104
The study of religion: a field for historical or social scientific inquiry? 116
I 116
II 118
III 120
Notes 121
The role of the study of religions in a national culture 122
Notes 129
The problem of faith in the sociology of religion 132
Notes 138
Theories of the religious change in black Africa 140
Theory of the shattered microcosm. 141
Theory of an evolution towards the monolatry 142
Historical explanation of H. J. Fisher 144
Social and Structural Explanation 144
Conversion in the African context 145
Theory of the Religious Change as a Transaction 146
a) Conversion of the Zulu elite 146
b) Conversion of the common people 148
c) Experience of Polish missionaries 149
Notes 150
Philology and fieldwork in the study of Japanese religion 152
Introduction 152
An example 153
The problem of access 154
Foreignness and language 155
The attitude towards information 156
Documentary sources derived from fieldwork situations. 159
Notes 162
A vision for multi-disciplinary approach for the study of the analects of Confucius 166
Historical Reflection 166
Present Situation 171
A Guide for the Social Scientific Study on the Analects 172
Sociological Study 173
Anthropological Study 174
Psychological Study 175
Conclusion 175
Psychological irrationalism as a research category in the science of religion 178
Studies on religions in the context of social sciences 184
Social sciences and the study of Islam 192
Some features of the study of Islam until ca. 1950 **6 194
Social scientific studies on Muslim societies since ca. 1950 195
Some observations anout the scholarly study of religion 200
The contribution of the social sciences to a more adequate study of Islam 202
Theoretical contributions 202
Scholarly contributions 204
Islam. 205
Conclusion 206
Notes 207
History of religions in the context of the social sciences: from history to historical sociology 211
I 211
II 212
III 219
IV 223
Notes 223
The problem of definition of religion in the sociology of religion: an open continuity 228
Notes 232