Patterns In Comparative Religion
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Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2022-11-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1496208323 |
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In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena--the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity's effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted.
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780722079454 |
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In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena-the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity's effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted.
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Religions |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William E. Paden |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-05-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1474252125 |
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The cross-cultural study of religion has always gone hand in hand with the worldview, sciences, or intellectual frameworks of the time. These frames, whether focused on psychology or politics, gender or colonialism, bring out perspectives for understanding religious behavior. Today one of our common civic worldviews is represented in the shift from scriptural to evolutionary history. This volume brings together in one place key essays by professor emeritus William Paden, showing a progression of steps he has taken in exploring bridgeworks between comparative religion and evolutionary models of religious behavior. One of the leading scholars in religious studies, Paden shows ways that religion can be contextualized as part of the natural world and thus seen as reflecting the ingrained sociality and world-making drive of the human species. Paden argues that although comparativism has been challenged as too culture-bound, too western, or too gendered, cross-over categories and concepts between religious traditions cannot be avoided. Arguing that there are recurrent patterns of human behavior common to our species and that thereby underlie all cultures, he proposes that the missing link in the Religion Evolution debate is comparative religion, a global, cross-cultural perspective on religious behaviours throughout time. Each article is contextualized within this overall trajectory of thought within Paden's work and the history of the discipline as a whole.
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1976 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Religions |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roger Schmidt |
Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Religions |
ISBN | : 9781111186555 |
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Authored by distinguished scholars of religion writing in their areas of specialty, PATTERNS OF RELIGION examines key religious traditions around the world, from the ancient origins of religion to contemporary religious movements. Expertly written and organized, this text offers unparalleled flexibility for instructors. Each chapter explores the history, beliefs, practices, and contemporary perspectives for a major religious tradition. This unified chapter structure helps to emphasize the patterns that link diverse religious traditions. The readings at the end of chapters include selections from scriptures and other important texts, eliminating the need for a separate scripture anthology. Now in full color, the supporting maps, photographs, chronologies, glossaries, and tables help contextualize each tradition and encourage further inquiry.
Author | : William E. Paden |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2015-10-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0807012122 |
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From Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions.
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780156792011 |
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Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.
Author | : Jonathan Z. Smith |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2004-11-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226763870 |
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One of the most influential theorists of religion, Jonathan Z. Smith is best known for his analyses of religious studies as a discipline and for his advocacy and refinement of comparison as the basis for the history of religions. Relating Religion gathers seventeen essays—four of them never before published—that together provide the first broad overview of Smith's thinking since his seminal 1982 book, Imagining Religion. Smith first explains how he was drawn to the study of religion, outlines his own theoretical commitments, and draws the connections between his thinking and his concerns for general education. He then engages several figures and traditions that serve to define his interests within the larger setting of the discipline. The essays that follow consider the role of taxonomy and classification in the study of religion, the construction of difference, and the procedures of generalization and redescription that Smith takes to be key to the comparative enterprise. The final essays deploy features of Smith's most recent work, especially the notion of translation. Heady, original, and provocative, Relating Religion is certain to be hailed as a landmark in the academic study and critical theory of religion.