ISBN:
9781845537678
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184553767X
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9781317490586
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1317490584
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 292 pages)
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Religion in culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mack, Burton L Myth and the Christian nation
DDC:
306.63
Keywords:
Religion Social aspects
;
Religion and sociology
;
Christianity
;
Religion Social aspects
;
Religion
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Godsdiensten
;
Maatschappij
;
Christendom
;
Mythos
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
Ethnosoziologie
;
Christentum
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Soziologie
;
Religion
;
Theorie
;
Religionssoziologie
;
Christentum
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
Christianity
;
Religion Social aspects
;
Religion and sociology
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This is a book on a social theory of religion and culture. A survey of the meanings of the term religion from Columbus to Jonathan Z. Smith sets the pace. Examples are taken from ethnography, the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman age, and Christendom in order to develop the concepts of "imagined world," "social formation," "mythic grammar," and "cultural mentality." What has been learned from the study of other peoples and their religions about the function of myths and rituals is then applied to an analysis of the Christian myth-ritual system and its social logic. The odd combinations of myt
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-283 and index. - Print version record
,
Print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
,
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
,
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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