Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 -- Nietzschean Poststructuralist Theory -- Critique of the Phenomenology of Religion -- Part I -- Chapter 2 -- The Discursive Structuring of "Religion" and Psyche in Varieties -- The Self as a Social Construction -- Religion as a Socially Constructed Phenomenon -- Social and Linguistic Mediation of Experience -- Example: The "Great Vision" of Black Elk -- Historicity of James' Categorical Scheme -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- Religion in Essence and Manifestation: From Hegel to Otto -- "Experience-Expression-Understanding": Dilthey's Research Program -- Classical Phenomenology of Religion -- The End of "Man" -- Chapter 4 -- Prologue: The Politics of "Prima" -- Hegel, Geist, and Entwicklung: Pre-Darwinian Philosophy of History and Religion in Germany -- Hegel's Articulation of the Concept of Entwicklung -- "Entwicklung" in Post-Darwinian Religionswissenschaft: Tiele and Otto -- The Τελος of Entwicklung: the Supremacy of the Christian West -- Epilogue: On "German Historiography" -- Chapter 5 -- Prelude: The "Transcendental Pretense" of the Modern Subject -- Subjectivity and Hermeneutics in Eliade's Mythology -- The Fertile Other -- The End of "Man" -- Part II -- Chapter 6 -- Rhetoric, Subject, Substance: Deconstructive Displacements -- Discourse and the Subject -- Power, Identity, Discourse -- Genealogy -- Conclusion: Consequences for the Study of Religion? -- Chapter 7 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 -- Paradigm and Canon -- Syntagm and Hermeneute -- Signs of, Signs for, the Other -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.

If religion is continually in a state of flux how can the study of religion critically examine contemporary religious beliefs and values? 'Representing Religion' critically examines this "crisis of representation". The volume traces the history of religious studies, critiquing the concept that "experience" is central to understanding religion. The views of influential semioticians and philosophers - notably Nietzsche, Saussure, Foucault, Barthes, and Bakhtin - are used to construct a new methodology for the critical study of religion. Representing Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of semiotics as well as theory and method in religious studies.

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