The Western Construction of Religion
Subtitle: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology
Contributors: William Sayers (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801873201
Subjects: Anthropology; Philosophy of religion; Sociology of Religion; Philosophy; Sociology; Religion; Study and teaching; Religion / General; History; General
First sentence: "The West." "Religion." It is enough to pronounce these two words one after the other, even if only cautiously, or to yoke them together in a phrase such as "the West and Religion" for us to feel, albeit with some confusion, that we are facing one of the most substantial and challenging problems imaginable-one that seems situated beyond all our learning and science, in that poorly known, shadowy zone where our still rudimentary knowledge discovers and constructs its first associations.