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Imagining Religion
- From Babylon to Jonestown
Af: Jonathan Z. Smith
Engelsk
Bogcover for Imagining Religion af Jonathan Z. Smith, 9780226763606
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Engelsk
Sider:
180
ISBN-13:
9780226763606
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0226763609
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Udg. Dato:
15 maj 1988
Størrelse i cm:
15,7 x 22,9 x 1,5
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Oplagsdato:
15 maj 1988
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Imagining Religion

- From Babylon to Jonestown
Af: Jonathan Z. Smith
Engelsk
Paperback 1988
Format:
Paperback
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With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of historically and geographically situated human ingenuity, cognition, and curiosity—simply put, as the result of human labor, one of the decisive but wholly ordinary ways human beings create the worlds in which they live and make sense of them. "These seven essays . . . display the critical intelligence, creativity, and sheer common sense that make Smith one of the most methodologically sophisticated and suggestive historians of religion writing today. . . . Smith scrutinizes the fundamental problems of taxonomy and comparison in religious studies, suggestively redescribes such basic categories as canon and ritual, and shows how frequently studied myths may more likely reflect situational incongruities than vaunted mimetic congruities. His final essay, on Jonestown, demonstrates the interpretive power of the historian of religion to render intelligible that in our own day which seems most bizarre."—Richard S. Sarason, Religious Studies Review
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
180
ISBN-13:
9780226763606
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0226763609
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 maj 1988
Størrelse i cm:
15,7 x 22,9 x 1,5
Forlag:
Serie:
Oplagsdato:
15 maj 1988
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