The History of religions : essays on the problem of understanding / by Joachim Wach [and others] ; edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa with the collaboration of Mircea Eliade and Charles H. Long.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: University of Chicago. Divinity School.
Other Authors: Kitagawa, Joseph M. 1915-1992 (Editor), Wach, Joachim, 1898-1955.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1967]
Series:Essays in divinity ; v. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the meaning and task of the history of religions (Religionswissenschaft) / Joachim Wach
  • Primitive, classical, and modern religions : a perspective on understanding the history of religions / Joseph M. Kitagawa
  • Archaism and hermeneutics / Charles H. Long
  • History of religions with a hermeneutic oriented toward Christian theology? / Kees W. Bolle
  • The death of God and the uniqueness of Christianity / Thomas J.J. Altizer
  • The history of religions and the study of Hinduism / Philip H. Ashby
  • A note on field method in historico-religious studies : the Vallabhasampradāy / Charles S.J. White
  • The history of religions and the study of Islam / Charles J. Adams
  • Toward a unified interpretation of Japanese religion / H. Byron Earhart
  • Symbol and reality among the Trobriand islanders / Jerome H. Long
  • The significance of the history of religions for the systematic theologian / Paul Tillich.