Rethinking Religion

Rethinking Religion

Author: Jørgen Podemann Sørensen

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

ISBN: 8772890797

Category: Religion

Page: 112

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The origin of this dossier of studies is a symposium, held in April 1984 by the Institute for the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, on the occasion of Professor Ugo Bianchi's visit. The intention to publish the symposium ripened during the rest of 1984, and to the original presentations were added the contribution by Per Bilde on Roman Mithraism and the editor's Attis or Osiris'.
Rethinking Religion
Language: en
Pages: 212

Rethinking Religion

Authors: E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-01-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This book is an ambitious attempt to develop a cognitive approach to religion. Focusing particularly on ritual action, it borrows analytical methods from linguistics and other cognitive sciences. The authors, a philosopher of science and a scholar of comparative religion, provide a lucid critical review of established approaches to religion,
Rethinking Religion
Language: en
Pages: 112

Rethinking Religion

Authors: Jørgen Podemann Sørensen
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

The origin of this dossier of studies is a symposium, held in April 1984 by the Institute for the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, on the occasion of Professor Ugo Bianchi's visit. The intention to publish the symposium ripened during the rest of 1984, and to the
Rethinking Religion in India
Language: en
Pages: 209

Rethinking Religion in India

Authors: Esther Bloch, Marianne Keppens, Rajaram Hegde
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-24 - Publisher: Routledge

This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as features of a religion with distinct beliefs, doctrines, sacred laws
Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
Language: en
Pages: 336

Rethinking Religion and World Affairs

Authors: Timothy Samuel Shah, Alfred Stepan, Monica Duffy Toft
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-29 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. The essays in this volume seek to question and remedy the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship, grappling with puzzles, issues, and questions concerning religion and world affairs in six
Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski
Language: en
Pages: 248

Rethinking Religion in the Theatre of Grotowski

Authors: Catharine Christof
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-27 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

This book opens a new interdisciplinary frontier between religion and theatre studies to illuminate what has been seen as the religious, or spiritual, nature of Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski’s work. It corrects the lacunae in both theatre studies and religious studies by examining the interaction between the two fields