Hans Kippenberg

Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Attempts to analyze the rise of comparative religion as a response to modernization. This book tells how Western scholars began to interpret religion's history drawing on prehistorical evidence and ethnographical reports. It shows how religions that had been rejected as irrational by Enlightenment philosophers were being studied with enthusiasm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780691009094
• ISBN-10: 0691009090
• Artikelnr.: 21278060

Autorenporträt

Hans G. Kippenberg, Professor at the University of Bremen and Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt, is the editor of the journal Numen, the author of numerous publications in German, and the coeditor of Secrecy and Concealment and Envisioning Magic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the American Edition vii
Introduction xiii
CHAPTER ONE: From the Philosophy of Religion to the History of Religions 1
CHAPTER TWO: Deciphering Unknown Cultures 24
CHAPTER THREE: What Languages Tell of the Early History of the Religions of
Europe 36
CHAPTER FOUR: The Presence of the Original Religion in Modern Civilization
51
CHAPTER FIVE: On the Origin of All Social Obligations: The Ritual of
Sacrifice 65
CHAPTER SIX: Under Civilization: The Menacing Realm of Magic 81
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Unfathomable Depths of Life in the Mirror of Hellenic
Religion 98
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Productive Force of World Rejection 113
CHAPTER NINE: Competing Models of the Recapitulation of the History of
Religions 125
CHAPTER TEN: Religion and the Social Bond 136
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Great Process of Disenchantment 155
CHAPTER TWELVE: Religion as Experience of the Self 175
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: How Descriptions of the History of Religion Reflect
Modernization 187
Notes 197
Bibliography 225
Index 257