Contemporary Views on Comparative Religion - In Celebration of Tim Jensen’s 65th Birthday - Peter Antes
8. History of Religions Without an Object?: Comparing Theoretical Objects in the History of Religions and in Anthropology
Contemporary Views on Comparative Religion - In Celebration of Tim Jensen’s 65th Birthday - Peter Antes
Jeppe Sinding Jensen [+]
Aarhus University
Jeppe Sinding Jensen is Senior Lecturer emeritus in the Department of the Study of Religion and the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark. His most recent monograph is What Is Religion? (Routledge 2020).
Description
Historians of religions work with (mostly) historical materials, primarily texts, and attempt to reconstruct the histories of religious traditions and their inter-relations with social and cultural formations. All with the purpose of understanding ideology and practice, but the question remains what the theoretical object really is and to what extent it is an object constructed by the community of scholars.