Introducing Religion - Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z.Smith (Hardcover)

To mark the contribution of one of the most influential theorists of religion, thirty-one leading scholars of religion from around the world put their minds together to work on problems of introducing "religion": as a category of human social practices, as a term that must be subject to scholarly theorizing, as a subject that must be carefully presented to students in the classroom. The claim of this volume is that the disciplined, cross-cultural and comparative study and teaching of religion in the academy is closely tied to the multi-level task of "introducing" (in the Latin sense of introducere) religion, of taking religion inside the academic discourses in the humanities and social sciences, of taking students - whether career academics or college students - inside religion as a set of ordinary human practices rather than initiating them into a sanctum of extraordinary knowledge about extraordinary things.

General

Imprint:	Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Willi Braun • Russell T. McCutcheon
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 44mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	524
ISBN-13:	978-1-84553-230-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84553-230-9
Barcode:	9781845532307

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