Proper Study of Religion - Gill, Sam
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In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Building on Smith's foundational legacy through creative encounters, Gill explores an extensive range of absorbing topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; play, philosophically understood, as a core dynamic of Smith's entire program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the sensory-rich real world of religions; and…mehr

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In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Building on Smith's foundational legacy through creative encounters, Gill explores an extensive range of absorbing topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; play, philosophically understood, as a core dynamic of Smith's entire program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the sensory-rich real world of religions; and self-moving as providing a biological and philosophical foundation on which to develop and expand upon a proper academic study of religion.
Autorenporträt
Sam Gill, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of many books and articles, most recently: Dancing Culture Religion; Religion and Technology into the Future; and Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference. Dancing, ritual, religion theory, moving and body, biology and philosophy of movement, gesture and posture, religion and senses are some of the fields of his active research. He has done field studies of Native Americans and cultures in Africa, Indonesia, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Australia. For years he operated a world dance and music school and studio.