Discovering religious history in the modern age /
Kippenberg, Hans G.
Discovering religious history in the modern age / Hans G. Kippenberg ; translated from German by Barbara Harshav. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2002. - xiv, 264 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-255) and index.
From the Philosophy of Religion to the History of Religions -- Deciphering Unknown Cultures -- What Languages Tell of the Early History of the Religions of Europe -- The Presence of the Original Religion in Modern Civilization -- On the Origin of All Social Obligations: The Ritual of Sacrifice -- Under Civilization: The Menacing Realm of Magic -- The Unfathomable Depths of Life in the Mirror of Hellenic Religion -- The Productive Force of World Rejection -- Competing Models of the Recapitulation of the History of Religions -- Religion and the Social Bond -- The Great Process of Disenchantment -- Religion as Experience of the Self -- How Descriptions of the History of Religion Reflect Modernization.
0691009082 (alk. paper) 9780691009087 (alk. paper) 0691009090 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780691009094 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001038750
Religion--History.
BL48 / .K5213 2002
Discovering religious history in the modern age / Hans G. Kippenberg ; translated from German by Barbara Harshav. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2002. - xiv, 264 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-255) and index.
From the Philosophy of Religion to the History of Religions -- Deciphering Unknown Cultures -- What Languages Tell of the Early History of the Religions of Europe -- The Presence of the Original Religion in Modern Civilization -- On the Origin of All Social Obligations: The Ritual of Sacrifice -- Under Civilization: The Menacing Realm of Magic -- The Unfathomable Depths of Life in the Mirror of Hellenic Religion -- The Productive Force of World Rejection -- Competing Models of the Recapitulation of the History of Religions -- Religion and the Social Bond -- The Great Process of Disenchantment -- Religion as Experience of the Self -- How Descriptions of the History of Religion Reflect Modernization.
0691009082 (alk. paper) 9780691009087 (alk. paper) 0691009090 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780691009094 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001038750
Religion--History.
BL48 / .K5213 2002