 | Jonathan Z. Smith - Religion - 1982 - 181 pages
...as to its character as revelation (and from this question, the historian of religion must abstain), the radical and arbitrary reduction represented by...of religion and a conception of religion as human labor. The task of application as well as the judgment of the relative adequacy of particular applications... | |
 | Douglas Renfrew Brooks, Bhāskararāya - Religion - 1990 - 328 pages
...the rule-governed exegetical enterprise of applying the canon to every dimension of human life is the most characteristic, persistent, and obsessive religious...what ought to be the essentially anthropological view of the historian of religion and a conception of religion as human labor. The application as well as... | |
 | Religion - 1992 - 337 pages
...introduction Schrader says that his translation of the canon and its exegesis. ... It [exegetical enterprise] is, at the same time, the most profoundly cultural,...of religion and a conception of religion as human labor." Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982),... | |
 | Patrick Olivelle - Religion - 1993 - 289 pages
...as to its character as revelation (and from this question, the historian of religion must abstain), the radical and arbitrary reduction represented by...of religion and a conception of religion as human labor. The task of application as well as the judgment of the relative adequacy of particular applications... | |
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... taking the term in its widest sense, in particular, those elements of the theological endeavor that are concerned with canon and its exegesis. That is to say, bracketing any presuppositions as to its character as revelation (and from this question,... 