Jonathan Z. Smith on Religion

ISBN-13: 9780367024468 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 172 str.

Christopher I. Lehrich

Opis

Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-2017) was unquestionably one of the most important and influential voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion in the last century. This important volume offers the first full critical assessment of the influence of Jonathan Z. Smith’s thought on the subject of religion.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Biography  2. No data for religion: classification and definition  3. Magic rather than science: comparison  4. Laboratories for comparison: founders and traditions  5. An enterprise undertaken in bad faith: disciplines and professions  6. What’s the difference?: toward reconstruction  Epilogue 

O autorze

Christopher I. Lehrich is the author of The Language of Demons and Angels and The Occult Mind and the editor of On Teaching Religion: Essays by Jonathan Z. Smith. He was formerly Vice President of the North American Association for the Study of Religion.