Imagining Religion
From Babylon to Jonestown
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 who…
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- ISBN: 978-0-226-76360-6
- EAN: 9780226763606
- Produktnummer: 19345250
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Masse: H15.7 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.5 cm 300 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 300
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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