Equinox Religion Library

Questions, Pathways and Resources for the Academic Study of Religion

The Equinox Religion Library supports users at all stages of their pursuits, from undergraduates to postgraduates and beyond. It encompass all our digital publications on topics related to religion, allowing users to discover and access content from multiple formats -- whole books, book chapters, journals and reference books. Anyone can browse the site and read abstracts and authorized users with access to full text can also create their own personal libraries and/or private reading groups with links to unique collections of readings for courses they may be teaching where students can annotate, comment and share.

In addition to Collections which are mostly (but not entirely) built around individual religious traditions, the site also features Thematic/Topical sub-collections that cut across religious traditions, and which can be explored here as well as Regional sub-collections, as here.

Please note that is site is still -- and will always be -- developing as we add new content and index the backlist on a daily basis.

This collection currently includes material from 54 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 46 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 53 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 93 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 131 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 78 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 18 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 41 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 110 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
This collection currently includes material from 89 books and journals. In some cases, only selected chapters or articles are included. Click on individual title to see coverage.
Concepts in the Study of Religion
Critical Primers

Editor:
K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama

Books in the series offer brief introductions to an array of concepts—modes of analysis, tools, as well as analytic terms themselves—within the discourse of religious studies. Useful for almost any course, the volumes in the series do not attempt to assert normative understandings but rather they introduce and survey the various modes and contexts for scholarly engagement with the concept at hand. How, for example, has the term ‘myth’ been used, and what can various definitions allow us to do as scholars? Who in the field is working on the category of race and how? What might be the future of scholarship on gender in religious studies? What are the possibilities and limitations of description or comparison as methodological approaches? Thus, these critical primers provide — but are not limited to — concise overviews of the history of an approach or term. They also present the authors’ own critical analyses of the dynamics and stakes present in discourses surrounding these concepts. Including lists of further readings to guide additional consideration of their topic, the books in this series are valuable resources for students and advanced scholars alike.