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Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Religions of the World, Being Historical Sketches of Ancient and Modern Heathenism: Romanism: Mohammedism: and Christianity. By William Osburn, Author of "Israel in Egypt," Etc
Author: The Religions of the World, Being Historical Sketches of Ancient and Modern Heathenism: Romanism: Mohammedism; and Christianity
Author: William OsburnThe Religions of the World
Author: William OsburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religions
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record
Author: John KittoThe Journal of Sacred Literature
Author: John KittoThe Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record
Author: Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record
Author: The Journal of Sacred Literature
Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Invention of World Religions
Author: Tomoko MasuzawaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226509884
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is actually a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary language. In this ambitious study, Tomoko Masuzawa examines the emergence of "world religions" in modern European thought. Devoting particular attention to the relation between the comparative study of language and the nascent science of religion, she demonstrates how new classifications of language and race caused Buddhism and Islam to gain special significance, as these religions came to be seen in opposing terms-Aryan on one hand and Semitic on the other. Masuzawa also explores the complex relation of "world religions" to Protestant theology, from the hierarchical ordering of religions typical of the Christian supremacists of the nineteenth century to the aspirations of early twentieth-century theologian Ernst Troeltsch, who embraced the pluralist logic of "world religions" and by so doing sought to reclaim the universalist destiny of European modernity.