Exercices d'histoire des religions

Exercices d'histoire des religions
Author: Philippe Borgeaud
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2016-05-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900431914X

Exercices d’histoire des religions is a collection of the most important articles published by Philippe Borgeaud during his career as the professor of history of religions at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). These nineteen studies showcase the many reflections of the Swiss scholar of religion on the categories and tools used to describe and compare such evanescent concepts as “religions”, “myths” and “rituals”, and his methodology for a critical and comparative study of ancient and modern religions. Through them, readers will gain a clear understanding of the importance such an approach can wield in the contemporary discussions and dissents about religions. Exercices d’histoire des religions rassemble les articles les plus importants publiés par Philippe Borgeaud durant sa carrière en tant que professeur d’histoire des religions à l’Université de Genève. Ces dix-neuf enquêtes illustrent les réflexions du savant suisse sur les outils et catégories utilisés par l’historien des religions pour décrire et comparer des concepts aussi évanescents que les « religions », les « mythes » ou les « rituels », et sur le rôle joué par les émotions dans leur élaboration. À travers eux, le lecteur est amené à découvrir la méthode développée par Philippe Borgeaud pour étudier de manière critique et comparative les religions antiques et modernes, une approche sans doute fondamentale pour mieux saisir les discussions et controverses contemporaines sur ce sujet.

Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions

Alfred Loisy and the Making of History of Religions
Author: Annelies Lannoy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110584131

This monograph studies the professionalization of History of religions as an academic discipline in late 19th and early 20th century France and Europe. Its common thread is the work of the French Modernist priest and later Professor of History of religions at the Collège de France, Alfred Loisy (1857-1940), who participated in many of the most topical debates among French and international historians of religions. Unlike his well-studied Modernist theology, Loisy’s writings on comparative religion, and his rich interactions with famous scholars like F. Cumont, M. Mauss, or J.G. Frazer, remain largely unknown. This monograph is the first to paint a comprehensive picture of his career as a historian of religions before and after his excommunication in 1908. Through a contextual analysis of publications by Loisy and contemporaries, and a large corpus of private correspondence, it illuminates the scientification of the discipline between 1890-1920, and its deep entanglement with religion, politics, and society. Particular attention is also given to the role of national and transnational scholarly networks, and the way they controlled the theoretical and institutional frameworks for studying the history of religions.

Bibliography

Bibliography
Author: Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110800462

Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Bibliography

Bibliography
Author: Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1973
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789027979711

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today

Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today
Author: Idinopulos
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004379150

Reappraising Durkheim for the Study and Teaching of Religion Today is an occasion to critically analyze and reassess the work of this intellectual pioneer. It is also an effort to signal the continuing importance of Durkheim for today’s graduate and advanced undergraduate classrooms. Reappraising Durkheim brings together ten new critical essays in which noted sociologists, psychologists, phenomenologists, philosophers, and historians of religion grapple with the questions Durkheim raised and the solutions he proposed. Taken together, the volume is a careful historical and multi-disciplinary study of Durkheim that will lead students to a better understanding of how to study religion. Reappraising Durkheim will be an excellent text for courses focusing on theory and method in the academic study of religion at both the graduate and advanced undergraduate level. It would therefore be appropriate for use in departments of religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology.

The Life and Work of Ernesto De Martino

The Life and Work of Ernesto De Martino
Author: Flavio A. Geisshuesler
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2021-08-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004457720

The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino introduces one of the 20th century’s key thinkers in religious studies and demonstrates that the discipline was animated by a tension between the fear of the apocalypse and the desire for civilizational rebirth.

The Modernist as Philosopher

The Modernist as Philosopher
Author: Marcel Hébert
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2011-11-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813218799

This volume, the first to be published in English about Hébert, is essential for a full understanding of Catholic Modernism.