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Relating Religion

Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763870
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Relating Religion written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Imagining Religion

Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763609
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Religion written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

God of No Religion

Author : Z. Adil
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475990928
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book God of No Religion written by Z. Adil and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aamil, a twelve-year-old boy from Middle East, was born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother, Fatima, whom he loves the most. Fatima, who has an unwavering faith in her child, who cant be an active parent due to her sickness, who doesnt know how to read has her son read to her every night before he goes to sleep; it was for him so that he can read himself to sleep. In return, she will put two dinars under his pillow. A story about this boys journey and purpose to write about what he calls Mr. God . . . Anything that creates differences amongst men will create war. Unfortunately, religion is the biggest difference creator and reason for the unrest world. There has been more bloodshed in the world in the name of religion than the water in the ocean. Aamil says in his book, I believe in God I call him Mr. God. A book about love, finding ones purpose in life, promises and most importantly its about us The inner uniqueness and true self of a human! Lets see how his journey go from the day he left Middle East at the age of 12 to get education, see the world while keeping his focus on the promise to his mother, and to his purpose to write a masterpiece!

Religion from A to Z

Author : Reuven P. Bulka
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781897113325
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Religion from A to Z written by Reuven P. Bulka and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Teaching Religion

Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199944296
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book On Teaching Religion written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Teaching Religion collects the best of Jonathan Z. Smith's essays and lectures into one volume.

HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : HarperOne
ISBN 13 : 9780060621513
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions written by Mircea Eliade and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 1999-12-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive dictionary of the world's religions, compiled by two of the 20th century's most distinguished religion scholars. This highly accessible resource distils Mircea Eliade's lifework of detailing and comparing humanity's entire religious heritage, providing fascinating insights into the character and worldview of the 33 principal religions. Including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania, The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions covers all kinds of religious figures, histories, sacred texts, mythologies, and mystical techniques.

The A to Z of New Religious Movements

Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810855885
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of New Religious Movements written by George D. Chryssides and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The A to Z of New Religious Movements is a major contribution to understanding new and formative religions - leaving evaluation to the reader - providing brief descriptions of more than 100 religions with information on the founders and leaders and their roots in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and other more traditional religions, as well as the impact of modern philosophy and science. The chronology begins in the 18th century, tracing the movements from their roots; the introduction defines and categorizes the NRMs; and the bibliography provides further reading."--BOOK JACKET.

Introducing Religion

Author : Willi Braun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134937040
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Religion written by Willi Braun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of religion encompasses ordinary human social practice and is not limited to the extraordinary or divine. 'Introducing Religion' brings together leading international scholars in the field of religious studies to examine religion as integral to everyday social practice. The book establishes a theoretical framework for the study of religion to analyse prayer, ritual, science, morality and politics in relation to the world's major religions. It will be of interest to students of theory and method in religious studies seeking a clear introduction to the multifaceted nature of religion.

Critical Terms for Religious Studies

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226791562
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Critical Terms for Religious Studies written by Mark C. Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the very successful tradition of Critical Terms for Literary Studies and Critical Terms for Art History, this book attempts to provide a revitalized, self-aware vocabulary with which this bewildering religious diversity can be accurately described and responsibly discussed. Leading scholars working in a variety of traditions demonstrate through their incisive discussions that even our most basic terms for understanding religion are not neutral but carry specific historical and conceptual freight.

The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion

Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 : 9780006279679
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers more than three thousand articles on the world of religion.

Religion and Generation Z

Author : Brian Mountford
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789049326
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Generation Z written by Brian Mountford and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017 NatCen’s British Social Attitudes survey published statistics that 53% of the people in Britain say they have ‘no religion’ and that of those 70% of the 18-24 age-group claim to have 'no religion'. These essays attempt to say why, and are individual responses rather than a systematic examination of the question. Atheist, Agnostic, Irish, Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim views are represented. The purpose was to explain a social trend but, in the process of writing, several of the contributors have, as if by chance, produced material which is richly meditative and can be read both for information and as spiritual reflection. The Editor, Brian Mountford, is concerned that, too often, the religious views of the young are discussed by older clergy and writers but rarely heard first hand. This book is a partial remedy. Mountford has written opening and closing chapters, setting the scene and finally asking what future there is for religion.

The Proper Study of Religion After Jonathan Z. Smith

Author : Sam D. Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197527221
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Proper Study of Religion After Jonathan Z. Smith written by Sam D. Gill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Building on Smith's foundational legacy through creative encounters, Gill explores an extensive range of absorbing topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; play, philosophically understood, as a coredynamic of Smith's entire program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the sensory-rich real world of religions; and self-moving as providing a biological and philosophical foundation on which to develop and expand upon a proper academic study of religion.

A Guide for Women in Religion

Author : M. Hunt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981515
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book A Guide for Women in Religion written by M. Hunt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guide for Women in Religion is an indispensable resource for everyone from undergraduate students to emeritae professors involved in the field of religion. In the tradition of a Guide to the Perplexing: A Survival Manual for Women in Religious Studies that helped a generation of women break barriers, this work reflects the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary nature of the field. It is designed to encourage creative, collaborative approaches, and to help women avoid being coopted. Writers presume that teaching is but one career option with publishing, the non-profit sector, work in religious institutions and the like all good choices for which training in religious studies is useful. They offer guidance on how to handle graduate school, dissertation writing, job interviews, promotions, health care, retirement, on-line teaching, resumes, publications and much more. This guide is not for women only. Supportive male colleagues, hiring committees and departments will also want a copy for ready reference.

Map Is Not Territory

Author : Jonathan Z Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004667466
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Map Is Not Territory written by Jonathan Z Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Summe of Christian Religion. Delivered by Z. Ursinus in His Lectures Upon the Catechisme Authorized by ... Prince Fredericke Throughout His Dominions [with the Text] ... Translated ... by H. Parry ... Together with Some Supply of Wantes Out of His Discourses, Etc

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Total Pages : 1000 pages
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The A to Z of the Coptic Church

Author : Gawdat Gabra
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870576
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of the Coptic Church written by Gawdat Gabra and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first century, Saint Mark brought Christianity to Egypt and in so doing, formed the basis for the Coptic Orthodox Church. Today, Copts, members of the Coptic Church, compromise the largest Christian Community in the Middle East. The Coptic Church is more than 19 centuries old and has produced thousands of texts and biblical and theological studies. During the last half of the 20th century, however, economic and political discrimination has forced between 400,000 and one million Copts to emigrate from Egypt, with the majority settling in North America and Australia. The A to Z of the Coptic Church details the history of one of the oldest Christian churches. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, organizations, and structures; the theology and practices of the church; its literature and liturgy; and monasteries and churches.

The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History

Author : Paul Harvey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231530781
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History written by Paul Harvey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first guide to American religious history from colonial times to the present, this anthology features twenty-two leading scholars speaking on major themes and topics in the development of the diverse religious traditions of the United States. These include the growth and spread of evangelical culture, the mutual influence of religion and politics, the rise of fundamentalism, the role of gender and popular culture, and the problems and possibilities of pluralism. Geared toward general readers, students, researchers, and scholars, The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History provides concise yet broad surveys of specific fields, with an extensive glossary and bibliographies listing relevant books, films, articles, music, and media resources for navigating different streams of religious thought and culture. The collection opens with a thematic exploration of American religious history and culture and follows with twenty topical chapters, each of which illuminates the dominant questions and lines of inquiry that have determined scholarship within that chapter's chosen theme. Contributors also outline areas in need of further, more sophisticated study and identify critical resources for additional research. The glossary, "American Religious History, A–Z," lists crucial people, movements, groups, concepts, and historical events, enhanced by extensive statistical data.