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.
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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In: |
Numen
Year: 2014, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 329-333 |
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 |