Jonathan Z Smith on Religion 1st Edition by Christopher I Lehrich 9780429670534 0429670532

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• ISBN 10: 0429670532
• ISBN 13: 9780429670534
• Author: Christopher I Lehrich 9780429670534 0429670532

Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017) was unquestionably one of the most important and influential voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion in the last century. His work explored the nature and history of religious phenomena across cultures―from ancient Jewish practices to Maori cults, from early Christianity to mass suicide in the twentieth century―while critiquing the assumptions underlying the very category of “religion.”

This important volume offers the first full critical assessment of the influence of Jonathan Z. Smith’s thought on the subject of religion. Christopher I. Lehrich systematically examines and develops a critical overview that will assist others in engaging more fully with Smith’s scholarship.

This book is an essential reading for students and scholars interested in the work of Jonathan Z. Smith as well as the history of religion more broadly.

Table of content:

Introduction
1 Biography
2 No data for religion: classification and definition
3 Magic rather than science: comparison
4 Laboratories for comparison: founders and traditions
5 An enterprise undertaken in bad faith: disciplines and professions
6 What’s the difference?: toward reconstruction
Epilogue
Bibliographies
Jonathan Z. Smith: additional works cited
Other works
Criticism
Jonathan Z. Smith, annotated bibliography
Index

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