Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity by Jonathan Z. Smith

Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity

Jonathan Z. Smith

160 pages • first pub 1990 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this major theoretical and methodological statement on the history of religions, Jonathan Z. Smith shows how convert apologetic agendas can dictate the course of comparative religious studies. As his example, Smith reviews four centuries of sch...

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