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The history of religions; essays in methodology. Edited by Mircea Eliade and Joseph M. Kitagawa. With a pref. by Jerald C. Brauer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1959]Description: xi, 163 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 0226203948
  • 9780226203942
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 290 E42H
LOC classification:
  • BL41 .E5
Contents:
The history of religions in America / Joseph M. Kitagawa -- Comparative religion : whither, and why? / Wilfred Cantwell Smith -- The supreme being : phenomenological structure and historical development / Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Phenomenology of religions and philosophy of religion / Jean Daniélou -- Methodological remarks on the study of religious symbolism / Mircea Eliade -- The notion of "real elite" in sociology and in history / Louis Massignon -- On understanding non-Christian religions / Ernest Benz -- The history of religions as a preparation for the co-operation of religions.
Summary: The study of the history of religions appears to be at a critical point in its development. This is true of the discipline both in the East and in the West.
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The history of religions in America / Joseph M. Kitagawa -- Comparative religion : whither, and why? / Wilfred Cantwell Smith -- The supreme being : phenomenological structure and historical development / Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Phenomenology of religions and philosophy of religion / Jean Daniélou -- Methodological remarks on the study of religious symbolism / Mircea Eliade -- The notion of "real elite" in sociology and in history / Louis Massignon -- On understanding non-Christian religions / Ernest Benz -- The history of religions as a preparation for the co-operation of religions.

The study of the history of religions appears to be at a critical point in its development. This is true of the discipline both in the East and in the West.

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