The western construction of religion : myths, knowledge, and ideology / Daniel Dubuisson ; translate...
The western construction of religion : myths, knowledge, and ideology / Daniel Dubuisson ; translate...
The western construction of religion : myths, knowledge, and ideology / Daniel Dubuisson ; translated by William Sayers.
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003.
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G 2013/1565
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English
French
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Physical content
x, 244 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Religion, the West, and the History of Religions -- I. The West and Religion -- 1. A Central Concept -- 2. A Paradoxical Subject -- 3. An Uncertain Anthropological Calling -- II. Order and History -- 4. Christianity and the West -- 5. Continuities -- III. The Genealogy of a Western Sci...
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003.
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Maryland
Date Published
c2003.
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"In this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal Homo Religiosus and argues that religion as a discrete concepts is a Western construct, an invention of nineteenth-century scholars who created it as a field of scientific study. Before that time, there was little...
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The western construction of religion : myths, knowledge, and ideology / Daniel Dubuisson ; translated by William Sayers.
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Originally published as L'Occident et la religion: Mythes,science et ideoligie; published by Editions Complexe, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
State Reference Library copy at G 2013/1565: transferred from N200.71/2.
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c2003.
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G 2013/1565
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74VvlK4eVXEb
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ISBN
9780801887567 (pbk.)
9780801873201 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801873207 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
200/.71
MMS ID
991017342029702626
