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The primary aim of this subject guide is to assist the students at the University of Copenhagen. It contains advice on where and how to search for literature within the field of religious studies. On these pages you can find:
- Lists of databases of relevance to your subject
- Tips and tricks on how to search and find literature
- Facts about online journals and books
- Information about our printed books and theses’ collections
Religious Studies (shouldn’t be confused with theology) is an academic field that aims at understanding religious phenomena within their cultural, social and historical context – for that purpose both anthropological and sociological investigations and sources, as well as religious texts and much more, are consulted. Both thematically and methodologically it’s an academic field with a wide scope. Also for that reason the guide of this type will never be exhaustive or complete. But guess what – you can always contact us, if you can’t find an answer to your query on the pages of this guide.
Foundations and Futures in the Sociology of Religion by 
Religion: Material Dynamics by
Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. The book is divided into three sections: Part One revitalizes basic categories--animism and sacred, space and time--by situating them in their material production and testing their analytical viability. Part Two examines religious formations as configurations of power that operate in material cultures and cultural economies and are most clearly shown in the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. Part Three explores the material dynamics of circulation through case studies of religious mobility, change, and diffusion as intimate as the body and as vast as the oceans. Each chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of religion from poetics to politics, David Chidester provides an entry into the study of material religion that will be welcomed by students and specialists in religious studies, anthropology, and history.
Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts by 
Preparation and Processing of Religious and Cultural Foods by
You can find a wide range of books and journals at the ToRS/Saxo library in building 10.2.47.
