Reading J.Z. Smith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading J.Z. Smith write by Jonathan Z. Smith. This book was released on 2018. Reading J.Z. Smith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jonathan Z. Smith (1938-2017) was perhaps the most influential theorist of religion of the last half century. In this book, four interviews and a previously unpublished essay display something of the dynamic, thinking-on-his feet liveliness that Smith brought to questions about the study of religion, his theoretical preferences, and his methods of teaching.
On Teaching Religion
On Teaching Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Teaching Religion write by Jonathan Z. Smith. This book was released on 2013-01-10. On Teaching Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On Teaching Religion collects the best of Jonathan Z. Smith's essays and lectures into one volume.
Relating Religion
Relating Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relating Religion write by Jonathan Z. Smith. This book was released on 2004-11-10. Relating Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most influential theorists of religion, Jonathan Z. Smith is best known for his analyses of religious studies as a discipline and for his advocacy and refinement of comparison as the basis for the history of religions. Relating Religion gathers seventeen essays—four of them never before published—that together provide the first broad overview of Smith's thinking since his seminal 1982 book, Imagining Religion. Smith first explains how he was drawn to the study of religion, outlines his own theoretical commitments, and draws the connections between his thinking and his concerns for general education. He then engages several figures and traditions that serve to define his interests within the larger setting of the discipline. The essays that follow consider the role of taxonomy and classification in the study of religion, the construction of difference, and the procedures of generalization and redescription that Smith takes to be key to the comparative enterprise. The final essays deploy features of Smith's most recent work, especially the notion of translation. Heady, original, and provocative, Relating Religion is certain to be hailed as a landmark in the academic study and critical theory of religion.
Imagining Religion
Imagining Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining Religion write by Jonathan Z. Smith. This book was released on 1982. Imagining Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of historically and geographically situated human ingenuity, cognition, and curiosity—simply put, as the result of human labor, one of the decisive but wholly ordinary ways human beings create the worlds in which they live and make sense of them. "These seven essays . . . display the critical intelligence, creativity, and sheer common sense that make Smith one of the most methodologically sophisticated and suggestive historians of religion writing today. . . . Smith scrutinizes the fundamental problems of taxonomy and comparison in religious studies, suggestively redescribes such basic categories as canon and ritual, and shows how frequently studied myths may more likely reflect situational incongruities than vaunted mimetic congruities. His final essay, on Jonestown, demonstrates the interpretive power of the historian of religion to render intelligible that in our own day which seems most bizarre."—Richard S. Sarason, Religious Studies Review
Map is Not Territory
Map is Not Territory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Map is Not Territory write by Jonathan Z. Smith. This book was released on 1993. Map is Not Territory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Map Is Not Territory, Jonathan Z. Smith engages previous interpretations of religious texts from late antiquity, critically evaluates the notion of sacred space and time as it is represented in the works of Mircea Eliade, and tackles important problems of methodology.
