Representing religion essays in history, theory and crisis - Murphy, Tim, 1956- (London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2007)
The crisis of representation and the academic study of religion -- Phenomenology, consciousness, essence : critical surveys of the history of the study of religion -- Individual men in their solitude? : a critique of William James' individualistic approach to religion in the varieties of religious experience -- The concept of essence-and-manifestation in the history of the study of religion -- The concept of development in continental geisteswissenschaft and religionswissenshaft : before and after Darwin -- The transcendental pretense and Eliade's humanist hermeneutics towards a Nietzschean semiotics of religion -- Post-structural (dis)placements : genealogy, religious studies, and the problematics of historical identity -- Religion as the structuring of asymmetrical relations : towards a definition -- Towards a semiotic theory of religion.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and indexes.
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Keywords: Religion -- Philosophy; Philosophy and religion; Representation (Philosophy); Phenomenology; Religion; Phenomenology; Philosophy and religion; Religion -- Philosophy; Representation (Philosophy); RELIGION / Comparative Religion; RELIGION / Essays; RELIGION / Reference; Electronic books