Other Peoples’ Scriptures: Mythical Texts of Imagined Communities
The essays in this issue of Numen exemplify a shift in the comparative study of scriptures, highlighting their evanescence, their non-informative dimensions, and the ways in which they and the people who hold them sacred are reimagined across religious boundaries.
| Published in: | Numen |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
2014
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| In: |
Numen
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| Further subjects: | B
Sacred Texts
scriptures
interreligious relations
comparison
religious studies
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The essays in this issue of Numen exemplify a shift in the comparative study of scriptures, highlighting their evanescence, their non-informative dimensions, and the ways in which they and the people who hold them sacred are reimagined across religious boundaries. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Contains: | In: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341327 |