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Hardback. New. Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential and wide-ranging scholarship has consistently posed challenging, provocative, and often-irreverent questions that have really pushed the boundaries of the field of religious studies in important, sometimes controversial ways. Retracing the history of the discipline of religious studies, Lincoln argues that the field has tended to champion a "validating, feel-good" approach to religion, rather than posing more critical questions about religious claims to authority and their role in history, politics, and social change. A critical approach to the history of religions, he suggests, would focus on the human, temporal, and material aspects of phenomena that are claimed to have…
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Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions Hardcover - 2018
by Hugh Urban (Editor); Greg Johnson (Editor)
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- Title Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions
- Author Hugh Urban (Editor); Greg Johnson (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 350
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
- Date 2018-11-30
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780190911966 / 0190911964
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.2 in (23.88 x 16.26 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Religion - Historiography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018016590
- Dewey Decimal Code 200
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