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The History of religions : essays on the problem of understanding
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- Creator
- by Joachim Wach [and others] ; edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa with the collaboration of Mircea Eliade and Charles H. Long
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1967]
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- xii, 264 pages ; 24 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00321148, ocm00321148
- Most of the papers were presented at the Alumni Conference of the Field of History of Religions, Oct. 11-13, 1965, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the University of Chicago and the 100th anniversary of its Divinity School.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction : the meaning and task of the history of religions (Religionswissenschaft) / Joachim Wach -- Primitive, classical, and modern religions : a perspective on understanding the history of religions / Joseph M. Kitagawa -- Archaism and hermeneutics / Charles H. Long -- History of religions with a hermeneutic oriented toward Christian theology? / Kees W. Bolle -- The death of God and the uniqueness of Christianity / Thomas J.J. Altizer -- The history of religions and the study of Hinduism / Philip H. Ashby -- A note on field method in historico-religious studies : the Vallabhasampradāy / Charles S.J. White -- The history of religions and the study of Islam / Charles J. Adams -- Toward a unified interpretation of Japanese religion / H. Byron Earhart -- Symbol and reality among the Trobriand islanders / Jerome H. Long -- The significance of the history of religions for the systematic theologian / Paul Tillich