Concepts of Person in Religion and ThoughtHans G. Kippenberg, Yme B. Kuiper, Andy F. Sanders Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline. |
Contents
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Some Heuristical Notes | 51 |
Religious Traditions and the Human Person | 67 |
PART III NONWESTERN CONCEPTS OF PERSON | 171 |
Introduction | 173 |
Towards Contemporary Islamic Concepts of the Person | 177 |
Can You Marry a Djinni? An Aspect of the Djinn as Persons | 217 |
Some Reflections on the Concept of Person in Ancient Indian Texts | 229 |
An Inquiry into a Change of Perspective in the Hindu Worldview | 279 |
Ritual Person Among the Hopi Indians of Arizona | 309 |
EgoAwareness and the Person in the West African World View | 337 |
PART II ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN CONCEPTS OF PERSON | 77 |
Introduction | 79 |
Some Remarks on the Concept Person in the Ancient Egyptian Culture | 83 |
Name and Person in Ancient Judaism and Christianity | 103 |
The Image of the Philosopher in Late Antiquity and in Early Christianity | 125 |
Conceptions of the Person in Late Antiquity and Early Christianity | 137 |
Fear of Death | 159 |
PART IV SPECIAL ISSUES | 359 |
The Case of Zwarte Piet | 361 |
Extraterrestrial Persons | 383 |
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About the Authors | 397 |
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