The Sacred and its Scholars, Comparative Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious Data.
Idinopulos; Yonan (Editors)
The Sacred and its Scholars, Comparative Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious Data. - 1 online resource. - Numen Book Series 73. Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837. .
Preliminary Material / Preface / Sacrality as Integrity: “Sacred Order” as a Model for Describing Religious Worlds / Zionism, Brahminism and the Embodied Sacred: What the Durkheimians Owe to Sylvain-Lévi / Rethinking the Sacred: The Notions of ‘Human Body’ and ‘Territory’ in Conceptualizing Religion / Giving Voice to the Sacred: Collaborative Representation in the Study of Living Religious Traditions / Encountering the Sacred: Saint Veneration and Visitational Dreams Among Moroccan Jews in Israel / The Numinous as a Category of Values / The Sacred: A Sceptical View / Understanding and Teaching Rudolph Otto’s The Idea of the Holy / The Domicile in the Study and Teaching of the Sacred, Using the Methodological Assumptions of Jonathan Z. Smith and Mircea Eliade / Theology and the Pedagogy of the Sacred / Respect of Others’ Sacreds / Select Bibliography / Index of Names / Index of Subjects / Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- William E. Paden -- Ivan Strenski -- Veikko Anttonen -- Lorne L. Dawson -- Yoram Bilu -- Dan Merkur -- Stewart Guthrie -- Thomas A. Idinopulos -- David Cave -- Charles E. Winquist -- George Weckman -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan.
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 European methodologists in the study and teaching of the history of religions and its allied disciplines. The central question to which the contributors respond are these: What is the Sacred? Is it a being or a concept of a being; is it a mental state or an objective reality or something else entirely? Can the Sacred be described as an empirical fact, or as a formal rule for religious inquiry? If the Sacred is a valid category in the study and teaching of religion, then what can be said about the antithesis of the sacred, namely the profane or the secular? This volume probes these questions with great care in order to justify a number of ways the Sacred can be construed as an indispensable notion for the study and teaching of religion.
9789004378957
10.1163/9789004378957 DOI
Religion--Methodology.
Holy, The.
Religion--Study and teaching.
BL41 / .S24 1996
200/.7
The Sacred and its Scholars, Comparative Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious Data. - 1 online resource. - Numen Book Series 73. Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837. .
Preliminary Material / Preface / Sacrality as Integrity: “Sacred Order” as a Model for Describing Religious Worlds / Zionism, Brahminism and the Embodied Sacred: What the Durkheimians Owe to Sylvain-Lévi / Rethinking the Sacred: The Notions of ‘Human Body’ and ‘Territory’ in Conceptualizing Religion / Giving Voice to the Sacred: Collaborative Representation in the Study of Living Religious Traditions / Encountering the Sacred: Saint Veneration and Visitational Dreams Among Moroccan Jews in Israel / The Numinous as a Category of Values / The Sacred: A Sceptical View / Understanding and Teaching Rudolph Otto’s The Idea of the Holy / The Domicile in the Study and Teaching of the Sacred, Using the Methodological Assumptions of Jonathan Z. Smith and Mircea Eliade / Theology and the Pedagogy of the Sacred / Respect of Others’ Sacreds / Select Bibliography / Index of Names / Index of Subjects / Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- William E. Paden -- Ivan Strenski -- Veikko Anttonen -- Lorne L. Dawson -- Yoram Bilu -- Dan Merkur -- Stewart Guthrie -- Thomas A. Idinopulos -- David Cave -- Charles E. Winquist -- George Weckman -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan -- Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan.
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 European methodologists in the study and teaching of the history of religions and its allied disciplines. The central question to which the contributors respond are these: What is the Sacred? Is it a being or a concept of a being; is it a mental state or an objective reality or something else entirely? Can the Sacred be described as an empirical fact, or as a formal rule for religious inquiry? If the Sacred is a valid category in the study and teaching of religion, then what can be said about the antithesis of the sacred, namely the profane or the secular? This volume probes these questions with great care in order to justify a number of ways the Sacred can be construed as an indispensable notion for the study and teaching of religion.
9789004378957
10.1163/9789004378957 DOI
Religion--Methodology.
Holy, The.
Religion--Study and teaching.
BL41 / .S24 1996
200/.7