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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Autore principale: Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, 1916-2000
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : Fortress Press 1991.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1hqdhgt
Sommario:
  • "Religion" in the West
  • Other cultures: "the religions"
  • Special case of Islam
  • Is the concept adequate?
  • Cumulative tradition
  • Faith.