The Sacred and its Scholars, Comparative Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious Data.

The Sacred and its Scholars, Comparative Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious Data.

This volume of essays is devoted to a careful examination of the importance of methodology in the study of primary religious data. The essays focus on the \'Sacred\' as an ultimate object of descriptive analysis and critical scrutiny on the part of a select number of North American and Eur...

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Main Author: Idinopulos; Yonan (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1996.

Series: Numen Book Series 73.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Religion > Methodology.
Holy, The.
Religion > Study and teaching.

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Call Number: BL41 .S24 1996

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
  • Preface /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
  • Sacrality as Integrity: "Sacred Order" as a Model for Describing Religious Worlds /
  • William E. Paden
  • Zionism, Brahminism and the Embodied Sacred: What the Durkheimians Owe to Sylvain-Lévi /
  • Ivan Strenski
  • Rethinking the Sacred: The Notions of 'Human Body' and 'Territory' in Conceptualizing Religion /
  • Veikko Anttonen
  • Giving Voice to the Sacred: Collaborative Representation in the Study of Living Religious Traditions /
  • Lorne L. Dawson
  • Encountering the Sacred: Saint Veneration and Visitational Dreams Among Moroccan Jews in Israel /
  • Yoram Bilu
  • The Numinous as a Category of Values /
  • Dan Merkur
  • The Sacred: A Sceptical View /
  • Stewart Guthrie
  • Understanding and Teaching Rudolph Otto's The Idea of the Holy /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos
  • The Domicile in the Study and Teaching of the Sacred, Using the Methodological Assumptions of Jonathan Z. Smith and Mircea Eliade /
  • David Cave
  • Theology and the Pedagogy of the Sacred /
  • Charles E. Winquist
  • Respect of Others' Sacreds /
  • George Weckman
  • Select Bibliography /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
  • Index of Names /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan
  • Index of Subjects /
  • Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan.