Idea of Semitic Monotheism
«Necessary reading for those interested in the study of religion; changing attitudes to Abrahamic religions; Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad; or the development of philosophical underpinnings that led, in part, to modern anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.»
S. Ward, Choice Connect
The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century-from the Enlightenment to the First World War. It aims to understand the new status of Judaism and Islam in the formative period of the new discipline. Les mer
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problematic contradistinction between Aryan and Semitic families of peoples, cultures, and religions. This contradistinction grew from the Western discovery of Sanskrit and its relationship with European languages, at the time of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Together with the rise of scholarly Orientalism, this
discovery offered new perspectives on the East, as a consequence of which the Near East was demoted from its traditional status as the locus of the Biblical revelations.
This innovative work studies a central issue in the modern study of religion. Doing so, however, it emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major consequences and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present day.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780192898685
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«Necessary reading for those interested in the study of religion; changing attitudes to Abrahamic religions; Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad; or the development of philosophical underpinnings that led, in part, to modern anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.»
S. Ward, Choice Connect
«This is an impressive and salutary study that reminds biblical scholars of the centrality of Hebrew Bible texts and ideas in the darker parts of European history and culture.»
HYWEL CLIFFORD, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament