Jonathan Z. Smith - Books

Books

  • The Glory, Jest and Riddle: James George Frazer and The Golden Bough (1969), PhD thesis, Yale University.
  • Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (1978), University of Chicago Press 1993 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76357-9
  • Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (1982), University of Chicago Press 1988 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76360-9
  • To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual (1987), University of Chicago Press 1992 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76361-7
  • Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity (1990), University of Chicago Press 1994 paperback: ISBN 0-226-76363-3
  • Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion (2004), University of Chicago Press paperback: ISBN 0-226-76387-0

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