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Author : James A. Beverley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781418505738
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Religions A to Z written by James A. Beverley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A guide to 100 influential religious movements"--Cover.
Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763870
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
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.
Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763609
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
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
Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810855885
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)
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.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : HarperOne
ISBN 13 : 9780060621513
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
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.
Author : Reuven P. Bulka
Publisher : GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781897113325
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)
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:
Author : Jonathan Z Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004667466
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
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:
Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226791562
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (915 download)
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.
Author : Jonathan Z. Smith
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
ISBN 13 : 9780006279679
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (796 download)
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.
Author : Brian Mountford
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789049326
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
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.
Author : Helmuth von Glasenapp
Publisher : New York : Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Non-Christian Religions A to Z. written by Helmuth von Glasenapp and published by New York : Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1963 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief discussion of many of the religions of the world: Chinese, Greek, Hindu, Islam, Judaism, Primitive tribal religions, etc.
Author : Sam D. Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197527221
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
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.
Author : Christopher I. Lehrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429672020
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Z. Smith on Religion written by Christopher I. Lehrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. His work explored the nature and history of religious phenomena across cultures—from ancient Jewish practices to Maori cults, from early Christianity to mass suicide in the twentieth century—while critiquing the assumptions underlying the very category of "religion." This important volume offers the first full critical assessment of the influence of Jonathan Z. Smith’s thought on the subject of religion. Christopher I. Lehrich systematically examines and develops a critical overview that will assist others in engaging more fully with Smith’s scholarship. This book is an essential reading for students and scholars interested in the work of Jonathan Z. Smith as well as the history of religion more broadly.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book 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 written by and published by . This book was released on 1611 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Alan Harper
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803411171
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book A to Z of Mindfulness for Christians written by David Alan Harper and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A to Z of Mindfulness for Christians is geared to help Christians live in the now, the present -- the presence of God -- by encouraging them to explore mindfulness. Studies show that mindfulness benefits not only people with depression, anxiety and pain; it also benefits those who do not live with such conditions but who would like nonetheless to have greater well-being in their lives. Drawing from personal experience and the experience of others, David Harper shows how mindfulness can make a positive impact on well-being and therefore on faith and spirituality, while countering some of the myths about mindfulness. Divided into 52 themes and spanning the alphabet, An A to Z of Mindfulness for Christians explores aspects of mindfulness and how they relate to being a Christian. Each letter represents two relevant themes, from Awake and Attitude to Body and Breath to Zest and Zacchaeus, and each theme is informative, encouraging and overlaps with spirituality, faith and mindfulness.
Author : Charles Orzech
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135001625X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Museums of World Religions written by Charles Orzech and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examining the notion of 'world religions', Charles D. Orzech compares five purpose-built museums of world religions and their online extensions. Inspired by the 19th and 20th century discipline of comparative religion, these museums seek to promote religious tolerance by representing religious diversity and by arguing for underlying kinship among religions. From locations in Europe (Marburg, Glasgow and St Petersburg), to North America (Quebec) to Asia (Taipei), each museum advances a particular cultural history. This book shows how the curation of the objects they contain shapes public perceptions of religion, giving material form to the discourses about religion and world religions. Raising important questions about religion and secularity, museum displays and religious piety, Museums of World Religions questions the ideology that informs these museums. Building on recent anthropological work on the agency of religious objects, the author critiques these museums and suggests new approaches to displaying the matter of religion.
Author : Olajide Olaopa
Publisher : WestBowPress
ISBN 13 : 1490819231
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book David Oyedepology: the a – Z Adventure of Faith of the Billionaire Bishop written by Olajide Olaopa and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bishop David Oyedepo is understood and misunderstood by different people for different reasons. This book provides a better independent real-life account of the mystery behind the mastery of this global Christian gospel phenomenon and his pace-setting undeniable world-class superlative successes in the midst of deep multidimensional national poverty within his home country.
