What does it mean to be religious in the modern world? This is the question posed by well-known human geographer, Yi-Fu Tuan in Religion: From Place to Placelessness. In this, the latest book in his long and distinguished career, Tuan turns to this specific challenge, which has been a uniting current in much of his previous work. To illustrate the modern meaning of religion, Tu...(展开全部)

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In this exploration of the "very first utterance of philosophers," F. M. Cornford showed that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century B.C. emerged directly from the religious thought of the preceding era in Greece. Combining profound classical scholarship with striking anthropological and sociological insight, Cornford rejec...(展开全部)

爱德华•雷尔夫，加拿大地理学家爱德华•雷尔夫以其著作《地方与无地方》闻名于上世纪七十年代，与段义孚、布蒂默等人齐名为当代欧美人文主义地理学思潮的中流砥柱。雷尔夫的论著多从人类的经验视角出发去探讨地理学的现象学基础。其研究往往涉及对地方感、地方依附与地方认同的阐述，以及它们随时代演进而出现的变化。此外，雷尔夫颇具影响力的著作还包括《理性的景观与人本主义地理学》（1981）和《现代城市景观》（1987），等等。

爱德华•雷尔夫，加拿大地理学家爱德华•雷尔夫以其著作《地方与无地方》闻名于上世纪七十年代，与段义孚、布蒂默等人齐名为当代欧美人文主义地理学思潮的中流砥柱。雷尔夫的论著多从人类的经验视角出发去探讨地理学的现象学基础。其研究往往涉及对地方感、地方依附与地方认同的阐述，以及它们随时代演进而出现的变化。此外，雷尔夫颇具影响力的著作还包括《理性的景观与人本主义地理学》（1981）和《现代城市景观》（1987），等等。

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional...(展开全部)

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional...(展开全部)

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the whole architectural phenomenon; logical and methodical extraction of general principles from the prevailing pluralism of approaches.