Tim Murphy

Representing Religion

History, Theory, Crisis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

If religion is continually in a state of flux how can the study of religion critically examine contemporary religious beliefs and values? 'Representing Religion' critically examines this "crisis of representation".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 139mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781845530921
• ISBN-10: 1845530926
• Artikelnr.: 21900897

Autorenporträt

Tim Murphy was Assistant Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The "Crisis of Representation" and the Study of Religion in
Culture Part I Phenomenology, Consciousness, Essence: Critical Surveys of
the History of the Study of Religion Chapter One: Religion, Self, and
Culture: A Critique of William James's Psychological Approach in The
Varieties of Religious Experience Religion Chapter Two: The Concept
"Essence and Manifestation" in the History of the Study of Religion Chapter
Three: The Concept "Entwicklung" in German Religionswissenshaft: Before and
After Darwin Chapter Four: The Total Hermeneutics of the New Humanism:
Mircea Eliade's Agenda for Religionswissenschaft Part II Towards a
Nietzschean Semiotics of Religion Chapter Five: Nietzsche,
Poststructuralism and the Phenomenology of Religion Chapter Six: Rhetoric,
Substance, Subject Chapter Seven: Interpretation, Power, Text: From Subject
to Subject Position Chapter Eight: Towards a Semiotic Theory of Religion
Appendix I