Chapter 1 The Conference

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents / Matières v
3. Contributors / Collaborateurs vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introductions
6. The Conference 3
7. W. C. Smith: son apport, son oeuvre 7
8. Retours en arrière / Looking Backward
9. Retrospective Thoughts on The Meaning and End of Religion 13
10. La religion en Occident : Rétractations 23
11. Les mots, l'histoire / The Words, The History
12. From the Classical Religio to the Modem Religion: Elements of a Transformation between 1550 and 1650 31
13. The Reified Heart in Seventeenth-century Religion 45
14. La religion au XIX^e siècle: quelques particularités françaises 57
15. Le concept de religion chez Ernst Troeltsch: pour un dépassement du positivisme et de l'empirisme 71
16. An Ambivalent Relationship to the Holy: Gerardus van der Leeuw on Religion 93
17. An Asian Starting Point for the Study of Religion 101
18. World Religions: A Category in the Making? 111
19. Les idées, la réalité / Ideas and Reality
20. Anthropological Perspectives on Popular Faith: Catholicism in Brittany 133
21. Is it a Crime to be Interdisciplinary? A Different Approach to the Study of Modern Jewish Law 145
22. Religion, religieux, croyance, imaginaire 157
23. Foi et religion: une relecture sémiologique 169
24. Prolégomènes à une définition sémiotique de la religion 193
25. W. C. Smith, Hermeneutics, and the Subject-Object Syndrome 209
26. In Search of an Open Concept of Religion 225
27. Appendice/Appendix
28. Wilfred Cantwell Smith: A Chronological Bibliography 243
29. SR Supplements 253