Bruce Lincoln’s "How to Read a Religious Text": An Experiment of Application

In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions, Lincoln’s "How to Read a Religious Text" is anchored in decades of work with mythological texts or canonical texts, the six points deployed have their origins in his prior work, Theorizing Myth (Li...

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Auteur principal: Chatterjea, Ipsita (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Equinox 2013
Dans: Bulletin for the study of religion
Année: 2013, Volume: 42, Numéro: 2, Pages: 13-19
Sujets non-standardisés:B African Methodist Episcopal Church
B Women and religion
B Bruce Lincoln
B Sara J. Duncan
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Résumé:In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions, Lincoln’s "How to Read a Religious Text" is anchored in decades of work with mythological texts or canonical texts, the six points deployed have their origins in his prior work, Theorizing Myth (Lincoln 2012, 5-15; Lincoln 1999, 150-155). 1 The sections from the Chandogya Upani?ds that Lincoln uses to illustrate his points thus, fall in line with a number of his selected examples over the course of his career, add to this the analysis of relatively discrete events. The essay will apply Lincoln’s six lines of inquiry to Sara J. Duncan’s Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses: With Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishop’s Wives (1906) to walk through of the utility, limits and necessary adaptations that surface when Lincoln’s categories are applied to other types of religious texts beyond myth and canon.
ISSN:2041-1871
Contient:Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v42i2.13