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Informationen zum Autor Tim Murphy was Assistant Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Alabama. Klappentext If religion is continually in a state of flux how can the study of religion critically examine contemporary religious beliefs and values? 'Representing Religion' critically examines this "crisis of representation". Zusammenfassung If religion is continually in a state of flux how can the study of religion critically examine contemporary religious beliefs and values? 'Representing Religion' critically examines this "crisis of representation". Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The "Crisis of Representation" and the Study of Religion in Culture Part I Phenomenology, Consciousness, Essence: Critical Surveys of the History of the Study of Religion Chapter One: Religion, Self, and Culture: A Critique of William James's Psychological Approach in The Varieties of Religious Experience Religion Chapter Two: The Concept "Essence and Manifestation" in the History of the Study of Religion Chapter Three: The Concept "Entwicklung" in German Religionswissenshaft: Before and After Darwin Chapter Four: The Total Hermeneutics of the New Humanism: Mircea Eliade's Agenda for Religionswissenschaft Part II Towards a Nietzschean Semiotics of Religion Chapter Five: Nietzsche, Poststructuralism and the Phenomenology of Religion Chapter Six: Rhetoric, Substance, Subject Chapter Seven: Interpretation, Power, Text: From Subject to Subject Position Chapter Eight: Towards a Semiotic Theory of Religion Appendix I
