| Title | Man, Meaning, and Mystery: 100 Years of History of Religions in Norway. the Heritage of W. Brede Kristensen |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2000 |
| Authors | Hjelde S |
| Series Title | Numen Books: Studies in the History of Religions |
| Volume | 87 |
| Number of Pages | 301 |
| Publisher | Brill |
| ISBN Number | 978-9004114975 |
| Keywords | Hierapolis, Plutonium |
| Abstract | At an international symposium in Norway, the 100 years' anniversary of the academic study of religion was celebrated. This volume contains the papers that were presented at this conference. A major part of the papers deals with the situation of this discipline around the turn of the last century, focussing especially on the work of the Dutch-Norwegian scholar W. Brede Kristensen (1867-1953) and on other founding fathers in the Scandinavian countries. Other contributors discuss methodological questions relating to the idea of a phenomenology of religion. Furthermore, an attempt is made to compare the study of religion at the end of the twentieth century with the situation a hundred years earlier, and to trace some of the lines of development. The book includes a bibliography of publications by W. Brede Kristensen. |
