Pocket • 1988 • Engelsk

Imagining Religion From Babylon to Jonestown

Name: Imagining Religion From Babylon to Jonestown
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Av Jonathan Z. Smith

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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 a

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9780226763606

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1988

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Engelsk

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Imagining Religion From Babylon to Jonestown

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