The Sacred and Its Scholars : : Comparative Methodologies for the Study of Primary Religious Data / / edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward Yonan.

• Superior document: Numen Book Series ; Volume 73
• TeilnehmendeR: Idinopulos, Thomas A.,; Yonan, Edward A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : EJ. Brill,, [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Numen numerus ; Volume 73.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Preface /; Sacrality as Integrity: “Sacred Order” as a Model for Describing Religious Worlds /; Zionism, Brahminism and the Embodied Sacred: What the Durkheimians Owe to Sylvain-Lévi /; Rethinking the Sacred: The Notions of ‘Human Body’ and ‘Territory’ in Conceptualizing Religion /; Giving Voice to the Sacred: Collaborative Representation in the Study of Living Religious Traditions /; Encountering the Sacred: Saint Veneration and Visitational Dreams Among Moroccan Jews in Israel /; The Numinous as a Category of Values /; The Sacred: A Sceptical View /; Understanding and Teaching Rudolph Otto’s The Idea of the Holy /; The Domicile in the Study and Teaching of the Sacred, Using the Methodological Assumptions of Jonathan Z. Smith and Mircea Eliade /; Theology and the Pedagogy of the Sacred /; Respect of Others’ Sacreds /; Select Bibliography /; Index of Names /; Index of Subjects /
• ISBN: 9004378952
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and Edward Yonan.

This volume of essays is devoted to a careful examination of the importance of methodology in the study of primary religious data. The essays focus on the \'Sacred\' as an ultimate object of descriptive analysis and critical scrutiny on the part of a select number of North American and European methodologists in the study and teaching of the history of religions and its allied disciplines. The central question to which the contributors respond are these: What is the Sacred? Is it a being or a concept of a being; is it a mental state or an objective reality or something else entirely? Can the Sacred be described as an empirical fact, or as a formal rule for religious inquiry? If the Sacred is a valid category in the study and teaching of religion, then what can be said about the antithesis of the sacred, namely the profane or the secular? This volume probes these questions with great care in order to justify a number of ways the Sacred can be construed as an indispensable notion for the study and teaching of religion.