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UNINA9910456415003321 |
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Autore |
Murphy Tim <1956-, > |
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Representing religion : essays in history, theory and crisis / / Tim Murphy |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
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1-84553-091-8 |
1-315-71123-0 |
1-317-49133-5 |
1-84553-750-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Collana |
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Religion - Philosophy |
Philosophy and religion |
Representation (Philosophy) |
Phenomenology |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2007 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The crisis of representation and the academic study of religion -- Phenomenology, consciousness, essence : critical surveys of the history of the study of religion -- Individual men in their solitude? : a critique of William James' individualistic approach to religion in the varieties of religious experience -- The concept of essence-and-manifestation in the history of the study of religion -- The concept of development in continental geisteswissenschaft and religionswissenshaft : before and after Darwin -- The transcendental pretense and Eliade's humanist hermeneutics towards a Nietzschean semiotics of religion -- Post-structural (dis)placements : genealogy, religious studies, and the problematics of historical identity -- Religion as the structuring of asymmetrical relations : towards a definition -- Towards a semiotic theory of religion. |
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If religion is continually in a state of flux how can the study of religion critically examine contemporary religious beliefs and values? 'Representing Religion' critically examines this ""crisis of |
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representation"". The volume traces the history of religious studies, critiquing the concept that ""experience"" is central to understanding religion. The views of influential semioticians and philosophers - notably Nietzsche, Saussure, Foucault, Barthes, and Bakhtin - are used to construct a new methodology for the critical study of religion. Representing Religion will be of interest to studen |
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