The Western Construction of Religion Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology |
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| Author:
| Dubuisson, Daniel |
| Translator:
| Sayers, William |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-8756-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.00 |
Book Description:
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In this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal Homo Religiosus and argues that ''religion'' as a discrete concept is a Western construct, an invention of nineteenth-century scholars who created it as a field of scientific study. Before that time, there was ......
In this book, anthropologist and historian of religion Daniel Dubuisson contests Mircea Eliade's theory of the existence of a universal Homo Religiosus and argues that ''religion'' as a discrete concept is a Western construct, an invention of nineteenth-century scholars who created it as a field of scientific study. Before that time, there was ......