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

ISBN: 0226763625

ISBN13: 9780226763620

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

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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 scholarship comparing early Christianities with religions of late Antiquity (especially the so-called mystery cults) and shows how this scholarship has been based upon an underlying Protestant-Catholic polemic...

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