Main description: It is crucial today to understand how religions can exist harmoniously in a shared environment, whether local or global. A reasoned approach to this question was sought by participants at a stimulating conference of the International Association for the History…
Main description: This collection of essays analyzes?tradition' as a category in the historical and comparative study of religion. The book questions the common assumption that tradition is simply the 0passing down0 or imitation of prior practices and discourses. It begins from …
"Wheeler-Barclay examines the lives and work of six scholars: Friedrich Max Muller, Edward B. Tylor, Andrew Lang, William Robertson Smith, James G. Frazer, and Jane Ellen Harrison. She illuminates their attempts to create a scholarly, non-apologetic study of religion and religio…