• Jonathan Zittell Smith (November 21, 1938 – December 30, 2017), also known as J. Z. Smith, was an American historian of religions. He was based at the...
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    the paradigm has faced critique by scholars of religion such as Jonathan Z. Smith, some of whom have argued for its abandonment. Critics have argued...
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    Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; November 6, 1914 – November 3, 2002) was an American character actor whose career included more than...
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  • politician Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017), American historian of religions Jon Michael Smith (born 1938), American scientist and engineer Jonathan Smith (priest)...
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    the deconstruction of Frazer's "dying-and-rising god" category was Jonathan Z. Smith, whose 1969 dissertation discusses Frazer's Golden Bough, and who...
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  • 15 Feb 2022. Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion by Jonathan Z. Smith Jahangir Oshidri (1997), Mazdisna encyclopedia , Markaz Publishers...
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    origin and history of the name Jacob". Retrieved 13 February 2017. Jonathan Z. Smith, Map is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions, University...
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    P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 18-50 (1995), p. 179. Jonathan Z. Smith, Map is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions, University...
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  • Hammerton-Kelly, eds., Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation, p. 122. "What is Mimetic...
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    their beliefs, literatures, stories and practices. Scholars, such as Jonathan Z. Smith, Timothy Fitzgerald, Talal Asad, Tomoko Masuzawa, Geoffrey A. Oddie...
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    Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion Ware: Wordsworth 1993. Jonathan Z. Smith "Dying and Rising Gods" in Mircea Eliade (ed.) The Encyclopedia of...
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  • restricted to the Ngāti Kahungunu as a response to Christianity. Jonathan Z. Smith questions the motives behind the existence of such a book,[clarification...
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    44876-44877). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition Jonathan Z. Smith: see idem, "When the Bough Breaks", History of Religions 12/4 (May...
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  • theory of religion as "social interests." Along with his close friend Jonathan Z. Smith, Mack was active in the Redescribing Christian Origins Group of the...
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    scholarship should be rejected altogether. The scholar of religion Jonathan Z. Smith for example argued that it had no utility as an etic term that scholars...
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    Everything which is complex is unusable." Historian of religion Jonathan Z. Smith concluded his eponymous essay collection, Map is not Territory with...
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  • (1999-01-01). "Bearing the 'Bare Facts' of Ritual. A Critique Of Jonathan Z. Smith's Study of the Bear Ceremony Based On a Study of the Ainu Iyomante"...
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  • reprinted in Map is not territory: studies in the history of religions ed Jonathan Z. Smith - 1993 Howard Jacobson The Exagoge of Ezekiel 2009 "Greco-Jewish magical...
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    cycle and triumph over chaos. However a more detailed analysis by Jonathan Z. Smith led him to argue that the ritual should be understood in terms of...
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  • Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith GCStJ FRHistS (27 June 1938 – 13 September 2016) was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie...
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    Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), colloquially known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha...
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  • Faith and Life (Taylor & Francis 1999 ISBN 978-0-81533070-7), p. 207 Jonathan Z. Smith, To Take Place (University of Chicago Press 1992 ISBN 978-0-22676361-3)...
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    criticize the designation of "dying-and-rising god" altogether. In 1987, Jonathan Z. Smith concluded in Mircea Eliade's Encyclopedia of Religion that "The category...
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    Christian Literature, builds on scholarship from historian of religion Jonathan Z. Smith. She proposes viewing gospel authors as individual elite cultural...
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    Press, 1987) 1988. Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. Ed. by Robert Hamerton-Kelly...
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    G. (ed.) (1987) Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. Stanford: Stanford University...
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  • Fuller. Allison Williams joined the cast in June as Lucy Smith. It was announced in July that Jonathan Bailey would star opposite Bomer as Tim Laughlin. Principal...
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    Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), who was head of the firm until his death. Cape and his...
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    Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation, a collection of essays from early meetings of the colloquium by Girard, Jonathan Z. Smith...
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  • Carolyn Osiek 2006 Robert Kraft 2007 Katharine Doob Sakenfeld 2008 Jonathan Z. Smith 2009 David J. A. Clines 2010 Vincent L. Wimbush 2011 Carol Newsom...
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