How Long to Read New Patterns for Comparative Religion

How Long Does it Take to Read New Patterns for Comparative Religion?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 30 minutes to read New Patterns for Comparative Religion by William E. Paden

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Description

The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time. These frames, whether focused on psychology or politics, gender or colonialism, bring out perspectives for understanding religious behavior. Today one of our common civic worldviews is represented in the shift from scriptural to evolutionary history. This volume brings together in one place key essays by professor emeritus William Paden, showing a progression of steps he has taken in exploring bridgeworks between comparative religion and evolutionary models of religious behavior. One of the leading scholars in religious studies, Paden shows ways that religion can be contextualized as part of the natural world and thus seen as reflecting the ingrained sociality and world-making drive of the human species. Paden argues that although comparativism has been challenged as too culture-bound, too western, or too gendered, cross-over categories and concepts between religious traditions cannot be avoided. Arguing that there are recurrent patterns of human behavior common to our species and that thereby underlie all cultures, he proposes that the missing link in the Religion Evolution debate is comparative religion, a global, cross-cultural perspective on religious behaviours throughout time. Each article is contextualized within this overall trajectory of thought within Paden's work and the history of the discipline as a whole.

How long is New Patterns for Comparative Religion?

New Patterns for Comparative Religion by William E. Paden is 265 pages long, and a total of 67,575 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read New Patterns for Comparative Religion Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 9 minutes to read New Patterns for Comparative Religion aloud.

What Reading Level is New Patterns for Comparative Religion?

New Patterns for Comparative Religion is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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