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9780691123509 | Bollingen Foundation, April 18, 2005, cover price $27.95
Product Description: One of the most influential theorists of religion, Jonathan Z. Smith is best known for his analyses of religious studies as a discipline and for his advocacy and refinement of comparison as the basis for the history of religions. Relating Religion gathers seventeen essays—four of them never before published—that together provide the first broad overview of Smith's thinking since his seminal 1982 book, Imagining Religion...read more
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9780226763866 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 10, 2004, cover price $75.00
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9780226763873 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 10, 2004, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: One of the most influential theorists of religion, Jonathan Z.
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9780060675158 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, November 1, 1995), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Offers more than three thousand articles on the world of religion
In this major theoretical and methodological statement on the history of religions, Jonathan Z. Smith shows how convert apologetic agendas can dictate the course of comparative religious studies. As his example, Smith reviews four centuries of scholarship comparing early Christianities with religions of late Antiquity (especially the so-called mystery cults) and shows how this scholarship has been based upon an underlying Protestant-Catholic polemic. The result is a devastating critique of traditional New Testament scholarship, a redescription of early Christianities as religious traditions amenable to comparison, and a milestone in Smith's controversial approach to comparative religious studies."An important book, and certainly one of the most significant in the career of Jonathan Z. Smith, whom one may venture to call the greatest pathologist in the history of religions. As in many precedent cases, Smith follows a standard procedure: he carefully selects his victim, and then dissects with artistic finesse and unequaled acumen. The operation is always necessary, and a deconstructor of Smith's caliber is hard to find."âIoan P. Coulianu, Journal of Religion (view table of contents)
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9780226763620 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 18, 1990, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: In this major theoretical and methodological statement on the history of religions, Jonathan Z.
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9780226763637 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 28, 1994), cover price $26.00
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9789004054929 | Brill Academic Pub, June 1, 1978, cover price $78.50
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9780226763576 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $32.00
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9780226763590 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $27.50
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9780226763613 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1992), cover price $30.00
Product Description: In this major theoretical and methodological statement on the history of religions, Jonathan Z. Smith shows how convert apologetic agendas can dictate the course of comparative religious studies. As his example, Smith reviews four centuries of scholarship comparing early Christianities with religions of late Antiquity (especially the so-called mystery cults) and shows how this scholarship has been based upon an underlying Protestant-Catholic polemic...read more
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9780728601581 | Curzon Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: In this major theoretical and methodological statement on the history of religions, Jonathan Z.
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9780226763606 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 1988), cover price $30.00
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