Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion—historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their stories are endowed with sacred origins and authority. In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars, Lincoln assembles a collection of essays that both illustrates and reveals the benefits of his methodology, making a case for a critical religious studies that starts with skepticism but is neither cynical nor crude.
320 pages | 16 color plates, 10 line drawings, 12 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2012
History: Ancient and Classical History
Reviews
Table of Contents
Theses on Method
CHAPTER TWO
How to Read a Religious Text
CHAPTER THREE
Nature and Genesis of Pantheons
CHAPTER FOUR
The Cosmo-logic of Persian Demonology
CHAPTER FIVE
Anomaly, Science, and Religion
CHAPTER SIX
Between History and Myth
CHAPTER SEVEN
Poetic, Royal, and Female Discourse
CHAPTER EIGHT
Ancient and Post-Ancient Religions
CHAPTER NINE
Sanctified Violence
CHAPTER TEN
Religious and Other Conflicts in Twentieth-Century Guatemala
CHAPTER ELEVEN
In Praise of the Chaotic
CHAPTER TWELVE
Theses on Comparison
with Cristiano Grottanelli
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The (Un)discipline of Religious Studies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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