Three understandings of the nature of religion--religion as experience, symbolic meaning, and power--have dominated scholarly discussions, in succession, for the past hundred years. Visions of Religion carefully integrates these approaches into a social practical theory of religion.
Visions of Religion offers a long-overdue call for the integration of approaches to the study of religion that prioritize experience, meaning, or power to make the case that all three are important aspects of religion as social practice.