The History of Religions: Essays on the Problem of Understanding (Essays in Divinity, Vol. 1)

University of Chicago Press [Published date: 1968]. Hard cover, 264 pp. Third Impression, 1974. Good/ NO dust jacket. Maroon cloth covered boards with blind stamped title on front and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges of covers edges and light overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Faint soiling to endpapers. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. [From publisher] The essays in this volume, first in a series of eight to be published in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the University of Chicago Divinity School and written by its alumni and faculty, focus on hermeneutical problems involved in the study of religion and the issues which arise from the necessity of interpreting religious experience as it comes to expression in the history of human experience. Of special interest to students of church history are the essays by Joachin Wach, concerned with the relationship between theology and foreign religions; by Mircea Eliade, centering around the investigator's historical work and his present cultural milieu; by Joseph Kitagawa, establishing a classification for primitive, classical, and modern religious orientations; by Charles Long, discussing the implications and results of investigating archaic religious experience for the student of religion; by Kees Bolle, questioning theological approaches to non-Christian religions; and by Paul Tillich, outlining the theological enrichment which results from a study of the history of religion.…