Science of Religion. Studies in Methodology : : Proceedings of the Study Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions, held in Turku, Finland, August 27-31, 1973 / / ed. by Lauri Honko.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies <1990
• MitwirkendeR: BAAL, J. VAN,; BARR, JAMES,; BIANCHI, UGO,; BIEZAIS, HARALDS,; BJERKE, SVEIN,; Baaren, Th. P. van,; Bergman, Jan,; Bleeker, C. J.,; Bouritius, G.J.F.,; Büttner, Manfred,; COLPE, CARSTEN,; Cain, Horst,; Capps, Walter H.,; Colombo, Ileana Chirassi,; Drobin, Ulf,; Edsman, Carl-Martin,; GOLDAMMER, KURT,; Ghosh, Asok K.,; HEERMA van VOSS, M.,; HONKO, LAURI,; HULTKRANTZ, ÅKE,; Jackson, Anthony,; KITAGAWA, JOSEPH M.,; Kamstra, Jacques H.,; Klassen, William,; Klimkeit, Hans-J.,; Nenola-Kallio, Aili,; Oosthuizen, G. C.,; PEACOCK, JAMES L.,; PENTIKÄINEN, JUHA,; Penner, Hans H.,; Perry, Edmund,; Petzoldt, Leander,; Poniatowski, Zygmunt,; Pummer, Reinhard,; Pye, Michael,; RINGGREN, HELMER,; ROOTH, ANNA-BIRGITTA,; RUDOLPH, KURT,; SPIRO, MELFORD Ε.,; Segelberg, Eric,; Sharpe, Eric J .,; Smart, Ninian,; Spencer, Robert F.,; WAARDENBURG, JACQUES,; Waal Malefijt, Annemarie de,; Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi,; Wissman, Hans,
• HerausgeberIn: Honko, Lauri,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion , 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (632 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-IV --; Preface --; Contents --; List of Participants --; Introduction --; PART ONE: Oral and Written Documentation of Religious Tradition --; 1Α. Preliterate Stages and Formation of the Canon in Book Religions --; Problems of the Formation and Function of a Canon --; Methodology and the Egyptian Book of the Dead --; Commentary --; Discussion --; 1B. Taxonomy and Source Criticism of Oral Tradition --; Taxonomy and Source Criticism of Oral Tradition --; On the Difficulty of Transcribing Synchronic Perception into Diachronic Verbalization --; 1C. Literary Source Criticism --; Early Shinto: A Case Study --; The Position of Source Research in Religious Studies (Religionswissenschaft) --; PART TWO: The Future of the Phenomenology of Religion --; 2A. Evaluation of Previous Methods --; Typology of Religion and the Phenomenological Method --; Symbol Theory and Copy Theory as Basic Epistemological and Conceptual Alternatives in Religious Studies --; 2B. Religio-ecological Approach --; Ecology of Religion: Its Scope and Methodology --; Ecology of Religion, Evolutionism and Comparative Religion --; 2C. Religio-anthropological Approach --; The History of Religions and the 'Religio-Anthropological Approach' --; Symbolism and Functionalism in the Anthropological Study of Religion --; PART THREE: Religion as Expressive Culture --; 3A. Theories Concerning the Ritual Process --; Theories Concerning the Ritual Process: An Orientation --; Notes on a Theory of the Social Evolution of Ritual --; 3B. The Language of Religion --; The Language of Religion --; The Language of Religion, and the Study of Religions as Sign Systems --; 3C. Depth Structures of Religious Expression --; The Scandal of Religion --; Is There a Method of Symbol Research Which Offers Hermeneutic Access to Depth- Dimensions of Religious Experience? --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects --; 630-634
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110814507; 9783110638103
• ISSN: 0080-0848
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110814507
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lauri Honko.