Religion as intellectual challenge in the long twentieth century : selected essays / Guy G. Stroumsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stroumsa, Guy G., author.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Religious thought--20th century.

Religious thought.

Intellectual life--Religious aspects.

Intellectual life.

Religion--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Religion.

Religion--Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2021]

Language Note:

13 essays in English, 2 in French.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Intellectual traditions

1. A Victorian Intellectual and His Religious World: Arthur James Balfour

2. Sacrifice Accomplished: Robert Hertz

3. Myth into Novel: The Late Freud on Early Religion

4. Presence, not Gnosis: Martin Buber as a Historian of Religion

5. La tentation du christianisme: Henri Bergson, Simone Weil, et Emmanuel Levinas

6. Difficult Wisdom: Buber and Levinas on Hebrew Humanism

pt. II Scholarly approaches

7. A Secret Gospel of Mark: Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem

8. Ancient Myths and Modern Demons: Georges Dumezil

9. History and Religion: Arnaldo Momigliano

10. From the Big Bang to a Secular Age: Robert Bellah and American Approaches to Religion

11. Comparer a travers champs? Marcel Detienne, polytheismes, et monotheismes

12. The Hidden Face of History: Carlo Ginzburg on Religion

pt. III Contemporary problems

13. Open Society and Closed Religion

14. History of Religions: Old Problems, New Challenges

15. The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls.

Notes:

"Most of the essays published in this volume were written in the last twenty years (the earliest ones were first published in 1998).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783161607202

3161607201

OCLC:

1259528063

Publisher Number:

99989753258