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A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion

Ranko Matasović
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Description:Comparative Indo-European religion is a study of the history of religious ideas. The central idea of this approach is that by comparing the religious ideas of the peoples who speak (or spoke) Indo-European languages we can plausibly reconstruct some of the religious ideas of the speakers of the common Proto-Indo-European language, from which the attested languages are descended. As in the case of the reconstruction of the PIE phonology and morphology, the reconstruction of the PIE religion is not an end in itself. Rather, it is intended to shed some light on the earliest history of religious ideas of the early historical communities of speakers of IE languages.The approach adopted here is strictly inductive; we do not make any a priori assumptions about what the system of belief of Indo-Europeans may have been, nor do we posit any original ideology, or mythopoetic structure. We believe we can know about the PIE religion only what the reconstructed fragments of PIE religious texts can teach us. Since Proto-Indo-European is primarily a linguistic entity, our primary data are mythological texts attested in different IE traditions, and all conclusions are based on their comparison. The texts selected here are meant not only to illustrate the common features of various IE traditions, but also their differences, and the multi-faceted nature of all religions.It should be stressed that this booklet is not in the first place about what Indo-Europeans believed, or how they represented their gods. It is about how they expressed their beliefs in words, and how they addressed their gods in their prayers, hymns, and incantations. We hope to reach a picture of this by a careful semantic reconstruction of the religious terminology of PIE, including the poetic formulas, occurring in texts dealing with religious matters. These formulas have been preserved thanks to the stubborn and uninterrupted oral poetic tradition extending from PIE to the daughter languages. Much in that picture is likely to remain fragmentary and unclear, but a fragmentary reconstruction reached by sound methodology is preferable, in our opinion, to aprioristic speculations of any kind, however persuasive and rational they might appear to the uninformed reader.   We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion. To get started finding A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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2018
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A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion

Ranko Matasović
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Description: Comparative Indo-European religion is a study of the history of religious ideas. The central idea of this approach is that by comparing the religious ideas of the peoples who speak (or spoke) Indo-European languages we can plausibly reconstruct some of the religious ideas of the speakers of the common Proto-Indo-European language, from which the attested languages are descended. As in the case of the reconstruction of the PIE phonology and morphology, the reconstruction of the PIE religion is not an end in itself. Rather, it is intended to shed some light on the earliest history of religious ideas of the early historical communities of speakers of IE languages.The approach adopted here is strictly inductive; we do not make any a priori assumptions about what the system of belief of Indo-Europeans may have been, nor do we posit any original ideology, or mythopoetic structure. We believe we can know about the PIE religion only what the reconstructed fragments of PIE religious texts can teach us. Since Proto-Indo-European is primarily a linguistic entity, our primary data are mythological texts attested in different IE traditions, and all conclusions are based on their comparison. The texts selected here are meant not only to illustrate the common features of various IE traditions, but also their differences, and the multi-faceted nature of all religions.It should be stressed that this booklet is not in the first place about what Indo-Europeans believed, or how they represented their gods. It is about how they expressed their beliefs in words, and how they addressed their gods in their prayers, hymns, and incantations. We hope to reach a picture of this by a careful semantic reconstruction of the religious terminology of PIE, including the poetic formulas, occurring in texts dealing with religious matters. These formulas have been preserved thanks to the stubborn and uninterrupted oral poetic tradition extending from PIE to the daughter languages. Much in that picture is likely to remain fragmentary and unclear, but a fragmentary reconstruction reached by sound methodology is preferable, in our opinion, to aprioristic speculations of any kind, however persuasive and rational they might appear to the uninformed reader.   We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion. To get started finding A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
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University of Zagreb
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2018
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