The meaning and end of religion/

Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making "religion" into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of "religion" to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith pres...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, 1916-2000
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Minneapolis : Fortress Press 1991.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1hqdhgt
Inhaltsangabe:
  • "Religion" in the West
  • Other cultures: "the religions"
  • Special case of Islam
  • Is the concept adequate?
  • Cumulative tradition
  • Faith.