Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 304 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Annotation

Subject

1. Religious literature > Authorship
2. Aesthetics > Religious aspects
3. Religion > Methodology
4. 11.09 systematic religious studies: other
5. Religiöse Literatur
6. Sprachanalyse
7. Ästhetik
8. Esthetica
9. Godsdienst

Contents

1. Introduction: Modern Dilemmas in Writing on Religion -- Interpretive Writing in Religious Studies -- The Argument -- The Fascinated Writers -- Ambivalent Feelings -- Fascinated Scientists and Empathizing Theologians -- Scientists Find Religion Puzzling -- Believers Broaden Their Horizons -- Finding Middle Grounds -- Science, Religion, and Human Meanings through the -- Mid-Twentieth Century -- The Fascinating Stuff of Religious Life -- The Art of Writing on Religion -- A Creative Process -- A Romantic World, a Classical Style, a Modern Idiom -- Constructing Religiohistorical Objects -- Other Scholars' UFOs -- Dimensions of Coherence -- Patterns of Local Order: Thick and Robust -- Universal Structures in Microcosm and Macrocosm -- The Religiohistorical Sublime -- Reason and Imagination in Religiohistorical Writing -- Shocking Revelations and Exciting New Knowledge -- Two Truths -- Relating Stories about Religious Traditions -- Large Explanation, Totality, and Community -- The Middle of Religiohistorical Knowledge -- Aesthetic Objects and Objective Knowledge -- Objectivities and Subjectivities -- Depth of Vision, Depth of Knowledge -- Working Together -- Interpreting Anew and Alone: Vision and Succession in Dutch Phenomenology -- Tiele's Liberal Triumphalism -- Kristensen's Sympathetic Science -- A Consolidator and a Revolutionary -- Hendrik Kraemer, Scholar and Missionary -- Vision, Succession, and the Problems of Great Men -- Explaining Together: The Excitement of Diffusionist Ideas -- Assyriologists with Imagination.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-295) and index.