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The western construction of religion
The western construction of religion, In this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal <i>Homo Religiosus</i> and argues that religion as a discrete concept is a Western construct, an invention of ninetee, The western construction of religion has a rating of 3 stars
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  • The western construction of religion
  • Written by author William Sayers
  • Published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003., 2003/05/19
  • 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 concept is a Western construct, an invention of ninetee
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Contents:Introduction: Religion, the West, and the History of ReligionsI The West and Religion1. A Central Concept

The Mirror of the West

Singular Universes

Religio and Religion

Texts, Corpora, and Hypertext

Cosmographical Issues2. A Paprdoxical Subject

Religions or Religious Phenomena?

History or Histories? 3. An Uncertain Anthropological Calling

A Nebula of Definitions

An Absence of Criteria

Imprecise and Shifting Boundaries

Arbitrary Typologies

A Scattering of Monographs

Arbitrary, Narcissistic ObjectivizationII Order and History4. Christianity and the West

A Unique History

Interiorization and Universalization

Autonomy and Imperialism5. Continuities

A General Topic

A Major Paradigm

Exemplary ThesesIII The Genealogy of a Western Science6. The History of Religions in the Nineteenth Century

Ubiquitous Prejudices

Myths and Science

A Science of Its Time7. Three Twentieth-Century Debates

The Sociological Explanation

"Historians" and Phenomenologists

The Invention of Homo religiosusIV From Religions to Cosmographic Formations8. The West, Religion, and Science9. ProlegomenaNotes

Index


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