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What are religious studies? What is theology? And what is their relationship to each other? In the light of such theoretical and methodological questions this historical inquiry asks what characterizes the study of Christianity within comparative religion—as distinguished from that of Christian theology? In the three main sections of the book representative texts from the history of comparative religion—including Schleiermacher and some other theological forerunners in the 19th century—are analyzed from a methodological and a material point of view. On this basis an answer is sought to the following questions: What has been the place of the study of Christianity within this discipline? On which methodological principles has it been based? And what kind of picture of Christianity has it presented?

Christianity and other religions --- Religion --- Theology --- Christianisme --- Théologie --- Study and teaching --- History --- Methodology --- Relations --- Etude et enseignement --- Histoire --- Méthodologie --- Christianity and other religions. --- History. --- Methodology. --- 291 --- -Christianity and other religions --- -Christian theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- -History --- -Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Théologie --- Méthodologie --- Propaedeutics of theology --- Study and teaching&delete& --- Propaedeutics --- Religion - Study and teaching - History. --- Theology - Methodology.

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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.

Religions --- Historiography --- History --- Study and teaching --- Histoire --- Etude et enseignement --- Kristensen, W. Brede --- 291 --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Religions - Historiography - History - 19th century - Congresses --- Religions - Study and teaching - Scandinavia - History - 19th century - Congresses --- Religions - Historiography - History - 20th century - Congresses --- Religions - Study and teaching - Scandinavia - History - 20th century - Congresses