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Daniel Dubuisson is director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, in Lille and author of many books in French and English, including Twentieth Century Mythologies and Impostures et pseudo-science: L'oeuvre de Mircea Eliade. William Sayers has translated Jacques Stiker's A History of Disability and Adam Rayski's The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance.
Introduction: Religion, the West, and the History of Religions | |
The West and Religion | |
A Central Concept The Mirror of the West Singular Universes Religioand Religion Texts, Corpora, and Hypertext Cosmographical Issues | |
A Paprdoxical Subject Religions or Religious Phenomena? History or Histories? | |
An Uncertain Anthropological Calling A Nebula of Definitions An Absence of Criteria Imprecise and Shifting Boundaries Arbitrary Typologies A Scattering of Monographs Arbitrary, Narcissistic Objectivization | |
Order and History | |
Christianity and the West A Unique History Interiorization and Universalization Autonomy and Imperialism | |
Continuities A General Topic A Major Paradigm Exemplary Theses | |
The Genealogy of a Western Science | |
The History of Religions in the Nineteenth Century Ubiquitous Prejudices Myths and Science A Science of Its Time | |
Three Twentieth-Century Debates The Sociological Explanation "Historians" and Phenomenologists The Invention of Homo religiosus | |
From Religions to Cosmographic Formations | |
The West, Religion, and Science | |
Prolegomena | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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