Turner James Religion Enters the Academy: The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America 9780820344188

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Автор: Turner James
Название: Religion Enters the Academy: The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America
ISBN: 9780820344188
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История: отдельные темы и события

История религии

История образования

ISBN-10: 0820344184
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Вес: 0.18 кг.
Дата издания: 30.11.2012
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 216 x 140 x 8
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: History
Подзаголовок: The origins of the scholarly study of religion in america
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Religious studies--also known as comparative religion or history of religions--emerged as a field of study in colleges and universities on both sides of the Atlantic during the late nineteenth century. In Europe, as previous historians have demonstrated, the discipline grew from long-established traditions of university-based philological scholarship. But in the United States, James Turner argues, religious studies developed outside the academy.

Until about 1820, Turner contends, even learned Americans showed little interest in non-European religions--a subject that had fascinated their counterparts in Europe since the end of the seventeenth century. Growing concerns about the status of Christianity generated American interest in comparing it to other great religions, and the resulting writings eventually produced the academic discipline of religious studies in U.S. universities. Fostered especially by learned Protestant ministers, this new discipline focused on canonical texts--the bibles--of other great world religions. This rather narrow approach provoked the philosopher and psychologist William James to challenge academic religious studies in 1902 with his celebrated and groundbreaking Varieties of Religious Experience.

Religion Enters the Academy: The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America, Turner James