Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2009
Abstract
In this article the author analyzes and compares two distinctive approaches to history of religion: the general universalist theory of religion as found in several major writings of Mircea Eliade and an alternative approach presented in the works of Paul Ricoeur, especially in his article entitled Manifestation and Proclamation, which consists of a friendly criticism of the universalist methodological aspirations of Eliade´s all-inclusive theory, and of Ricoeur´s proposal of a more appropriate methodology, distinguishing carefully between religious traditions based on hierophanies (manifestations of the sacred) and religious traditions based on proclamation of (divine) word