Representing religion : essays in history, theory and crisis / Tim Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Tim, 1956-

Series:

Religion in culture.

Religion in culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Philosophy and religion.

Representation (Philosophy).

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub. Ltd, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If religion is continually in a state of flux how can the study of religion critically examine contemporary religious beliefs and values? Representing Religion critically examines this 'crisis of representation'. The volume traces the history of religious studies, critiquing the concept that 'experience' is central to understanding religion. The views of influential semioticians and philosophers - notably Nietzsche, Saussure, Foucault, Barthes, and Bakhtin - are used to construct a new methodology for the critical study of religion. Representing Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of semiotics as well as theory and method in religious studies.

Contents:

The crisis of representation and the academic study of religion

Phenomenology, consciousness, essence : critical surveys of the history of the study of religion

Individual men in their solitude? : a critique of William James' individualistic approach to religion in the varieties of religious experience

The concept of essence-and-manifestation in the history of the study of religion

The concept of development in continental geisteswissenschaft and religionswissenshaft : before and after Darwin

The transcendental pretense and Eliade's humanist hermeneutics towards a Nietzschean semiotics of religion

Post-structural (dis)placements : genealogy, religious studies, and the problematics of historical identity

Religion as the structuring of asymmetrical relations : towards a definition

Towards a semiotic theory of religion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-49132-7

1-84553-091-8

1-315-71123-0

1-317-49133-5

1-84553-750-5

9781315711232

OCLC:

898104122