1st Edition

Religion Extended How Perception, Embodiment, and Practice Underlie Religion

By Elena Kalmykova Copyright 2025
214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Religion Extended contributes to discussions of aspects of religion that go beyond the epistemology of belief, incorporating other states such as understanding, emotion, knowledge of persons, knowledge-how, as well as practice. The author looks to bridge the gap in the study of religion between research of religious beliefs, on the one hand, and research of religious practices, on the other. She... Read more

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Puzzles and Oddities

2. Doctrinal Beliefs Revisited

3. Faith and Perception

4. Religious Practice

5. The Embodied Religion: Overcoming the Precariousness.

Index

Biography

Elena Kalmykova is a Marie Curie researcher in the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University, Sweden.