There are numerous difficult issues inherent in translating Jonathan Z. Smith’s work into French, among which is the selection of essays to translate. In this piece, I discuss the reasons that led the translators to opt for his essay ‘Here, There, and Anywhere’, a text that not only brings together many of Smith’s lifelong intellectual concerns but also showcases his pedagogical skills.
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Borgeaud, Philippe (2014). Préface. In J.Z. Smith, Magie de la Comparaison. Et autres Études d’Histoire des Religions. D. Barbu and N. Meylan, trans. Genève: Labor et Fides, pp. 7-10.
Gill, Sam (1998). No place to stand: Jonathan Z. Smith as homo ludens. The academic study of religion sub specie ludi. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 66 (2), pp. 283-312.
Girard, René (2011). Sanglantes Origines. B. Vincent, trans. Paris: Flammarion.
Graf, Fritz (1999). Magic in the Ancient World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Hamerton-Kelly, Robert, ed. (1987). Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Lincoln, Bruce (1989). Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification. New York: Oxford University Press.
Orsi, Robert (1991). The center out there, in here, and everywhere else: The nature of pilgrimage to the shrine of St Jude, 1929-1965. Journal of Social History 25, pp. 213-232.
Smith, Jonathan Z. (1982). Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Smith, Jonathan Z. (2004). Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Smith, Jonathan Z. (2014). Magie de la Comparaison. Et autres Études d’histoire des Religions. D. Barbu and N. Meylan, trans. Genève: Labor et Fides.
Urban, Hugh (2000). Making a place to take a stand: Jonathan Z. Smith and the politics and poetics of comparison. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 12 (3), pp. 339-378.
Whitehouse, Harvey (2002). Modes of religiosity: Toward a cognitive explanation of the sociopolitical dynamics of religion. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 14 (3), pp. 293-315.
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There are numerous difficult issues inherent in translating Jonathan Z. Smith’s work into French, among which is the selection of essays to translate. In this piece, I discuss the reasons that led the translators to opt for his essay ‘Here, There, and Anywhere’, a text that not only brings together many of Smith’s lifelong intellectual concerns but also showcases his pedagogical skills.
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Full Text Views | 200 | 1 | 0 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 318 | 8 | 0 |