LEADER 02885nam0 22003251i 450 001 UON00522673 005 20240307104728.2 010 $a978-02-267-6360-6 100 $a20240205d1982 |0itac50 ba 101 $aeng 102 $aUS 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aImagining Religion$efrom Babylon to Jonestown$fJonathan Z. Smith 210 $aChicago$cThe University of Chicago Press$d1982 215 $aXIII, 165 p.$d24 cm. 330 $aWith 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 events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of historically and geographically situated human ingenuity, cognition, and curiosity?simply put, as the result of human labor, one of the decisive but wholly ordinary ways human beings create the worlds in which they live and make sense of them. ?These seven essays . . . display the critical intelligence, creativity, and sheer common sense that make Smith one of the most methodologically sophisticated and suggestive historians of religion writing today. . . . Smith scrutinizes the fundamental problems of taxonomy and comparison in religious studies, suggestively redescribes such basic categories as canon and ritual, and shows how frequently studied myths may more likely reflect situational incongruities than vaunted mimetic congruities. His final essay, on Jonestown, demonstrates the interpretive power of the historian of religion to render intelligible that in our own day which seems most bizarre.??Richard S. Sarason, Religious Studies Review 410 1$1001UON00065768$12001 $aChicago studies in the history of Judaism$fWilliam Scott Green and Calvin Goldscheider, editors 606 $aReligione$xAntropologia$3UONC036111$2FI 606 $aRELIGIONE STUDI$3UONC049511$2FI 620 $aUS$dChicago, Ill.$3UONL000120 676 $a200$cReligione$v21 700 1$aSmith$bJonathan Z.$3UONV144550$059178 712 $aThe University of Chicago Press$3UONV246827$4650 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20251003$gRICA 899 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$2UONSI 912 $aUON00522673 950 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$dSI B 2.0 0240 $eSI 50675 5 0240 $sBuono 951 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$bSI20246 1J 20240205Bolla n. 33 del 20.2.2024. 996 $aImagining Religion$94314152 997 $aUNIOR