A guest at the table of the gods: Religion and the origins of academic life
Proceeding from the Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man, this paper is an attempt to survey the historical premises of the academic study of religion, both as a practice of detaching the subject matter of religion from its institutional restrictions,...
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| Language: | English |
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Finnish Society for the Study of Religion
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Temenos |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.fi/temenos/article/view/53570 |