Reconstructing Eliade

Author : Bryan Rennie
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143841708X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Eliade written by Bryan Rennie and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-01-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing Eliade is a concept-by-concept analysis of the thought of Mircea Eliade and a re-evaluation of his analysis of religion. It illustrates how a thorough familiarity with Eliade's work can produce an interpretation of his thought as systematic, coherent, and fully rational. Part One provides an analysis of the terms of Eliade's understanding of religion--hierophany, the sacred and the dialectic of the sacred and profane, homo religiosus, myths and symbols--and thus of the meaning of religion implied throughout his work. Part Two inspects various problems which arise in light of this analysis, particularly relativism and the role of commitment. Part Three applies this analysis to certain problems--religion in the modern world and Eliade's unfinished analysis of the modern, the postmodern phenomenon, implicit religion, and various related problems in the study of religion. Far from being outmoded and inadequate, Eliade's thought is suggested to be fertile ground for the reconception of religious realities in the contemporary world.

Author : Bryan S. Rennie
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427637
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Eliade written by Bryan S. Rennie and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a coherent and defensible interpretation of Eliade's thought which allows less familiar readers to approach Eliade with a greater clarity and precision. Foreword by Mac Linscott Ricketts, a leading translator of Eliade's writings.

Author : Douglas Allen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415939393
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade written by Douglas Allen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.

Author : Russell T. McCutcheon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355687
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Religion written by Russell T. McCutcheon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, author Russell McCutcheon offers a powerful critique of traditional scholarship on religion, focusing on multiple interrelated targets. Most prominent among these are the History of Religions as a discipline; Mircea Eliade, one of the founders of the modern discipline; recent scholarship on Eliade's life and politics; contemporary textbooks on world religions; and the oft-repeated bromide that "religion" is a sui generis phenomenon. McCutcheon skillfully analyzes the ideological basis for and service of the sui generis argument, demonstrating that it has been used to constitute the field's object of study in a form that is ahistoric, apolitical, fetishized, and sacrosanct. As such, he charges, it has helped to create departments, jobs, and publication outlets for those who are comfortable with such a suspect construction, while establishing a disciplinary ethos of astounding theoretical naivete and a body of scholarship to match. Surveying the textbooks available for introductory courses in comparative religion, the author finds that they uniformly adopt the sui generis line and all that comes with it. As a result, he argues, they are not just uncritical (which helps keep them popular among the audiences for which they are intended, but badly disserve), but actively inhibit the emergence of critical perspectives and capacities. And on the geo-political scale, he contends, the study of religion as an ahistorical category participates in a larger system of political domination and economic and cultural imperialism.

Author : Robert M. Burns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415320801
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historiography: Ideas written by Robert M. Burns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection aims to enable the reader to disentangle some of the ambiguities and confusions which have characterized the use of the term 'historiography'.

Author : Bryan Rennie
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447291
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Religious Worlds written by Bryan Rennie and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion.

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 079148016X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Eliade, The written by and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John D. Dadosky
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791460610
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Religious Knowing written by John D. Dadosky and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a critical exploration of Mircea Eliade's notion of the sacred by referencing the work of Bernard Lonergan.

Author : Nicolae Babuts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351505173
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mircea Eliade written by Nicolae Babuts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) was one of the twentieth century's foremost students of religion and cultural environments. This book examines the emergence, function, and value of religion and myth in his work.Nicolae Babuts, Robert Ellwood, Eric Ziolkowski, John Dadosky, Robert Segal, Mac Linscott Ricketts, Douglas Allen, and Liviu Borda examine Eliade's views on the interaction between the sacred and the profane. Each explores Eliade's phenomenological approach to the study of religion and myth. They show that modern rites of initiation, cultural activities, and spectacles like bullfighting, film, and, perhaps surprisingly, reading and writing, all harken back to the archetypal structures of the mythical imagination. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Eliade's phenomenological approach is that it reveals what we have in common with pre-Socratic man: the mind's structural capacity to endow objects and events with spiritual values and meanings.As a study of Eliade's concept of the mythic imagination, the book posits an analogy between the myths of the past and modern imitations. The authors suggest that in spite of their differences and their separate historical sources, myths represent basic structures of human consciousness. This book is essential reading for all students of religion, philosophy, and literature.

Author : Eric Bain-Selbo
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739108611
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judge and be Judged written by Eric Bain-Selbo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Judge and Be Judged offers insights into moral life and moral judgment that aim to help in understanding our society's tendency toward either fundamentalism or relativism. Framing his argument with an exegesis of Jesus' teaching "Judge not, that you be not judged," Eric Bain-Selbo provides some helpful conceptual tools for thinking about that predicament, and finding a way past it. By examining the social function of shame, the possibility of cross-cultural understanding, and obstacles to moral judgment in the college classroom, this book charts a path that helps us to avoid both fundamentalism and relativism."--BOOK JACKET