Religion Dans L'histoireMichel Despland, Gérard Vallée, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion The history of the concept of “religion” in Western tradition has intrigued scholars for years. This important collection of eighteen essays brings further light to the ongoing debate. Three of the invited participants, W.C. Smith, M. Despland and E. Feil, has each previously written impressive books treating this subject; the last two acknowledged the impact and continuing influence of Smith’s work, The Meaning and End of Religion. An introduction and a recapitulation of Smith’s contribution as a scholar set the stage for a retrospective look at the published literature. Contributors then examine the transformation of words (the classical religio to the modern religion), particularities of religion in nineteenth-century France, Troeltsch’s concept of religion, the study of religion from an Asian point of view and the categorization of “World Religions.” The concluding essays elaborate contemporary anthropological, cross-disciplinary, semiological, deconstructive and psychoanalytical methodological approaches to the concept and study of “religion.” Exploring critically different aspects of the concept and study of religion, these provocative essays typically reflect the methodological pluralism currently existing in the field of Religious Studies. Of interest to scholars and students alike, this collection also contains a complete bibliography of W.C. Smith’s publications. |
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... Confucian tradition , " " the Jewish tradition , " and the like ; and even in general parlance to some extent one hears such wording . In " faith , " on the other hand , academics , at least , have proven themselves much less ready to ...
... Confucian case in China appeared to be special , a mat- ter on which we have a paper in this volume , and on which I have spoken in Japan ( 1988a ) . So far as the West itself is concerned , it is not only the comparativist perspective ...
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Contents
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Les mots Ihistoire Part Two The Words The History | 29 |
Les idées la réalité Part Three Ideas and Reality | 131 |
AppendiceAppendix | 241 |