Map is Not Territory (Häftad)
avJonathan Z. Smith
ISBN: 9780226763576 - UTGIVEN: 199212In "Map Is Not Territory," Jonathan Z. Smith engages previous interpretations of religious texts from late antiquity, critically evaluates the notion of sacred space and time as it is represented in the works of Mircea Eliade, and tackles important problems of methodology.[...]
Imagining Religion (Pocket)
avJonathan Z. Smith
ISBN: 9780226763606 - UTGIVEN: 1988-05With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the e[...]
To Take Place (Häftad)
avJonathan Z. Smith
ISBN: 9780226763613 - UTGIVEN: 199209In this broad-ranging inquiry into ritual and its relation to place, Jonathan Z. Smith prepares the way for a new approach to the comparative study of religion.
Smith stresses the importance of place--in particular, constructed ritual environments--to a proper understanding of the ways i[...]
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Häftad)
avMircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith
ISBN: 9780691123509 - UTGIVEN: 200504This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen [...]
