Contents -- Introduction -- Section 4: Textual Approaches -- New Approaches to the Problem of Translation in the Study of Religion -- The Use of Electronic Media in the Study of Sacred Texts -- New Approaches: Literary Theory -- Section 5: Comparative Approaches -- Comparison in the Study of Religion -- New Approaches to the Study of Syncretism -- Performance Theory and the Study of Ritual -- New Approaches to the Study of Religious Dance -- Human Rights: An Important and Challenging New Field for the Study of Religion -- Section 6: Social Sciences -- A Survey of Advances in the Sociology of Religion (1980-2000) -- Assessing Secularization Theory -- Urbanization and Religion -- Religion and Diaspora -- Approaches to the Study of Religion in the Media -- Beyond "Church and State": Advances in the Study of Religion and Law -- Section 7: Cognition and Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Religion -- The Naturalness of Religious Concepts: An Emerging Cognitive Science of Religion -- Psychoanalyzing Prehistory: Struggling with the Unrecorded Past -- Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.