Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions
The history of Religions is in need of subdisciplines. Those that it has are mostly derived from other academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or, to mention a more recent invention, aesthetics. Interdisciplinary studies are in many ways a characteristic, inherent feature of the humaniti...
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| author | Jørgen Podemann Sørensen |
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| description | The history of Religions is in need of subdisciplines. Those that it has are mostly derived from other academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or, to mention a more recent invention, aesthetics. Interdisciplinary studies are in many ways a characteristic, inherent feature of the humanities, and certainly not to be resented or mistrusted. It is, however, worth noticing that the History of Religions has only one discipline entirely of its own: a comparative, cross-cultural, religio-specific discipline sometimes called the phenomenology of religion. The study of ritual is more than just the study of a very broad. It is with a view to the further exploration of the way meaning and form are put to work in ritual, and the way ritual determines and conditions the form of representations, that ritualistics can be suggested as a new discipline. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ff279c2f7406461893006192551965b32022-12-21T18:20:34ZengDonner InstituteScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis0582-32262343-49371993-01-011510.30674/scripta.67203Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of ReligionsJørgen Podemann Sørensen0University of CopenhagenThe history of Religions is in need of subdisciplines. Those that it has are mostly derived from other academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, or, to mention a more recent invention, aesthetics. Interdisciplinary studies are in many ways a characteristic, inherent feature of the humanities, and certainly not to be resented or mistrusted. It is, however, worth noticing that the History of Religions has only one discipline entirely of its own: a comparative, cross-cultural, religio-specific discipline sometimes called the phenomenology of religion. The study of ritual is more than just the study of a very broad. It is with a view to the further exploration of the way meaning and form are put to work in ritual, and the way ritual determines and conditions the form of representations, that ritualistics can be suggested as a new discipline.https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67203Religion -- StudyRitual -- StudyRitual -- DefinitionRites and ceremonies |
| spellingShingle | Jørgen Podemann Sørensen Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis Religion -- Study Ritual -- Study Ritual -- Definition Rites and ceremonies |
| title | Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions |
| title_full | Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions |
| title_fullStr | Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions |
| title_short | Ritualistics: a New Discipline in the History of Religions |
| title_sort | ritualistics a new discipline in the history of religions |
| topic | Religion -- Study Ritual -- Study Ritual -- Definition Rites and ceremonies |
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