Die Religionswissenschaft und das Christentum
Die Religionswissenschaft und das Christentum

Author: Hjelde

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9004378839

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What are religious studies? What is theology? And what is their relationship to each other? In the light of such theoretical and methodological questions this historical inquiry asks what characterizes the study of Christianity within comparative religion—as distinguished from that of Christian theology? In the three main sections of the book representative texts from the history of comparative religion—including Schleiermacher and some other theological forerunners in the 19th century—are analyzed from a methodological and a material point of view. On this basis an answer is sought to the following questions: What has been the place of the study of Christianity within this discipline? On which methodological principles has it been based? And what kind of picture of Christianity has it presented?

Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions

Author: Christian K. Wedemeyer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0195394348

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This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other. Shortly after Wach's death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him as the premiere historian of religions at the University of Chicago. As a result, the two have been associated with each other in many people's minds as the successive leaders of the so-called "Chicago School" in the history of religions. In fact, as this volume makes clear, there never was a monolithic Chicago School. Although Wach reportedly referred to Eliade as the most astute historian of religions of the day; the two never met, and their approaches to the study of religions differed significantly. Several dominant issues run through the essays collected here: the relationship between the two men's writings and their lives, and in Eliade's case, the relationship between his political commitments and his writings in fiction, history of religions, and autobiography. Both men's contributions to the field continue to provoke controversy and debate, and this volume sheds new light on these controversies and what they reveal about these two `scholars' legacies.

Deep History, Secular Theory
Deep History, Secular Theory

Author: Luther Martin

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-05-21

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1614518165

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Over the course of his career, Luther H. Martin has primarily produced articles rather than monographs. This approach to publication has given him the opportunity to experiment with different methodological approaches to an academic study of religion, with updates to and different interpretations of his field of historical specialization, namely Hellenistic religions, the subject of his only monograph (1987). The contents of this collected volume represent Martin's shift from comparative studies, to socio-political studies, to scientific studies of religion, and especially to the cognitive science of religion. He currently considers the latter to be the most viable approach for a scientific study of religion within the academic context of a modern research university. The twenty-five contributions collected in this volume are selected from over one hundred essays, articles, and book chapters published over a long and industrious career and are representative of Martin's work over the past two decades.

Drudgery Divine
Drudgery Divine

Author: Jonathan Z. Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1135336989

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Theorizing Religions Past
Theorizing Religions Past

Author: Harvey Whitehouse

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780759106215

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A collection of archaeologists and historians examine the modes of religiosity theory for its usefulness in explaining the origins and history of religions.

Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches
Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches

Author: Peter Antes

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-12-19

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 311021170X

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Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches.

Historical Fundamentals and the Study of Religions
Historical Fundamentals and the Study of Religions

Author: Kurt Rudolph

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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The scholarly tradition which the author represents sees the history of religions as a discipline historically grounded, philogically informed and independent of the claims of the theology and philosophy of religion. These latter claims, in his view, have served often to misdirect and confuse attempts to construct a truly scientific study of the history of religions. The chief argument of these lectures emerges clearly in the three final lectures. "Religion in the singular is an abstraction of metaphysics or theology, inherited from the age of Rationalism, from German Idealism and Romanticism. I think here especially of Hegel and Schleiermacher. Thus, 'religion' is a loaded term and any historian who adopts it without testing is thereby dependent upon a philosophical or theological theory."

New Approaches to the Study of Religion: Regional, critical, and historical approaches
New Approaches to the Study of Religion: Regional, critical, and historical approaches

Author: Peter Antes

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9783110176988

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Internationally recognized scholars from many parts of the world provide a critical survey of recent developments and achievements in the global field of religious studies. The work follows in the footsteps of two former publications: Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Jacques Waardenburg (1973), and Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Religion, edited by Frank Whaling (1984/85). New Approaches to the Study of Religion completes the survey of the comparative study of religion in the twentieth century by focussing on the past two decades. Many of the chapters, however, are also pathbreaking and point the way to future approaches.

Religious Education in Pre-Modern Europe
Religious Education in Pre-Modern Europe

Author: Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-09-28

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9004232133

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Although religious education is a crucial topic in present-day History of Religions, its study focuses on contemporary phenomena and is still undertheorised. The present volume proposes a comprehensive theoretical framework based on interdisciplinary case studies of religious education in pre-modern Europe.