Imagining Religion : From Babylon to Jonestown by Smith, Jonathan Z

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Paperback / softback. New. With 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… Read More

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1988. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 180 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches.

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Univ of Chicago Pr, 1988. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 180 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches.

University of Chicago Press, 1988-05-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!